Does a strictly convex extended-real-valued function attain a minimum on a compact convex set?

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The question says it all. I'd be most interested in hearing the answer for an arbitrary topological vector space, though functions on $\mathbb R ^n$ are also of interest.

I know that if a strictly convex function has a minimum, then it's unique. But I'm not sure whether the minimum is necessarily attained without also assuming the function is continuous (or at least lower semicontinuous).