{"id":29,"date":"2009-04-30T00:32:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T04:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=29"},"modified":"2009-04-30T00:32:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T04:32:48","slug":"william-auld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/william-auld\/","title":{"rendered":"William Auld"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scottish-born William Auld ranks among the best Esperanto authors of recent times – if not of all time! His long literary career included the editorship of several Esperanto magazines, and for a few years in the late 70s he was the Vice President of the World Esperanto Association. He compiled anthologies, wrote many poetry books, translated plenty of English-language literature, wrote essays on Esperanto, and even wrote four textbooks for teaching and learning Esperanto! His crowning glory was the epic poem “La Infana Raso<\/strong>” (the infant race), which we visited a long while ago in this blog when we examined Esperanto poetry.<\/p>\n

Auld is probably one of my favorite poets, in all the languages I know. But, don’t take my word alone that he’s excellent. From 1999 until 2006 (the year of his death), he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He never won, unfortunately…Imagine the recognition Esperanto would have received if he had earned one! However, the mere fact that he was nominated is a testament to his immense literary skill and poetic expertise. Search him on the Internet to find some of his poems!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scottish-born William Auld ranks among the best Esperanto authors of recent times – if not of all time! His long literary career included the editorship of several Esperanto magazines, and for a few years in the late 70s he was the Vice President of the World Esperanto Association. He compiled anthologies, wrote many poetry books…<\/p>\n

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