Baldur Ragnarsson

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name = Baldur Ragnarsson


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birthplace = Iceland
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occupation = novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist
nationality = Icelandic
language = Esperanto
Icelandic
period = 1958-
genre = Poetry, Essays
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principal works = "La lingvo serena"

Baldur Ragnarsson (born 25 August 1930) is an Icelandic poet and author of Esperanto works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland.

Esperanto

He learned Esperanto at school in 1949 and has been active in the movement to promote the use of this language since 1952.

Ragnarsson was president of the Icelandic Esperanto Association for many years. He presided over the World Esperanto Association's literary contest from 1975 to 1985. He was president of the organizing committee for the 1977 World Esperanto Congress at Reykjavík and vice-president of the UEA in charge of culture and education from 1980 to 1986. He has since then been an honorary meember of this organization.

A Member of the Esperanto Academy since 1979, he was editor of the journal "Norda Prismo" from 1958 to 1974.

In 2007 the Association of Esperanto-speaking authors ("Esperantlingva Verkista Asocio") nominated him as their candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature following the death of William Auld in 2006.

Works

Ragnarsson has composed poetic works in Icelandic as well as books on Icelandic language. He has also written two celebrated collections of Esperanto poems: "Ŝtupoj sen nomo" and "Esploroj."

In 2007 Edistudio published "La lingvo serena": his complete works. In addition to the poems of his two previous collections, the tome contained all the poems he has published subsequently, as well as all the essays which he has written on the topics of literature and linguistics.

Poetry
* "Ŝtupoj sen Nomo," 1959
* "Esploroj," 1974
* "Deflorazione" and "Malvirgigo" in "El la nova ĝardeno (Dal nuovo giardino)", Dante Bertolini, ed., Pedrazzini: Locarno, 1979, 100 pp.
* "La lingvo serena," 2007

Translations into Esperanto
* "Sub stelo rigida," two collections by the Icelandic poet Þorsteinn frá Hamri, 1963
* "Islandaj pravoĉoj," three tales and a poem from Old Icelandic literature, 1964
* "Sagao de Njal," Njal's Saga, the greatest of the Icelandic sagas, 2003
* "Sendependaj homoj," a novel by Halldór Laxness on the Icelandic countryside at the turn of the 20th century, 2007In addition, he has published ddozens of translations in various journals, in recent tmes principally in the journal " [http://www.latradukisto.tk/ La tradukisto] " eo.

Essays
* "La Sagaoj kaj Zamenhof: stabiligaj faktoroj" 1982
* "Studado de alia lingvo" 1982
* "Esperanto kiel anti-lingvo" in "Serta gratulatoria in honorem Juan Régulo". Universidad de La Laguna, Salamanca, 3,266 pp., 1986 ISBN 84-600-4290-1
* "La proza poemo: la ĝenro, ĝiaj latentoj kaj aplikoj" 1987
* "La Poezia Arto" (Five lectures) 1988
* "Cent jaroj de poezio en Esperanto". 1989
* "La poezio de la skaldoj"
* "La poemoj de Armand Su" 1993
* "Kombino de poeta virtuozeco kaj ties instrumento" 1994
* "Tradukante la antikvan islandan literaturon en Esperanto" 1998
* "La fono kaj la fronto: kelkaj konsideroj pri semiotikaj aspektoj de la Esperanta poezio" in "Lingva arto". Vilmos Benczik, ed., Universala Esperanto-Asocio, Rotterdam: 1999, 217 pp. ISBN 92-9017-064-6
* "La lingvo serena" 2007

See also

External links

* [http://www.rsi.is/rsi/felagatal/?ec_item_1_id=ef47a786-4c5f-4997-b098-6ff64c92040f Prezento pri Baldur Ragnarsson in la ttt-ejo de la Islanda Verkista Asocio]
* [http://esperanto.net/literaturo/autor/ragnarsson.html Baldur Ragnarsson] in [http://esperanto.net/literaturo/index.html Originala literaturo Esperanta]
* [http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/literaturo.originala.r.html#baldur_ragnarsson Baldur Ragnarsson] in [http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/literaturo.html Literaturo, en la reto, en Esperanto]