Background
Dušan Velkaverh was born on 12 September 1943 in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana) to a Slovene sailor and to an English nurse In 1942, during World World War II, his father joined the crew of an alliance ship, torpedoed off the coast of South America. He met his wife, a daughter of a colonial clerk, in the hospital where he was recovering.
Velkaverh was born a year later.
Career
Soon after his birth, the family moved to New York City, where they stayed for a short period of time. Shortly after that, the family moved to London. In 1948, they moved to Yugoslavia.
At first, they lived in Belgrade, where his father got the job as a deputy of the minister of shipping, then they relocated to Rijeka.
In 1956, the family came to Slovenia, first to Portorož and then to Ljubljana, where Velkaverh lived for the rest of his life. He learned Slovene at the age of 13.
Previously he only spoke English and Serbo-Croatian. In 2007, he visited his birth house in Georgetown for the first time after sixty-four years.
Last years of his life he was living in Vrhnika.