Tibor Sekelj member of Association of Esperantophone Writers
Work for Esperanto
Sekelj devoted much of his life to the defense and promotion of Esperanto. A Committee member of UEA since 1946, he sought for over thirty years—with a brief break while skirmishing with Ivo Lapenna) over its activity within the Instituto por Oficialigo de Esperanto (IOE), to be part of all the universal Esperanto Congresses. And as a representative of the IDU—the International Committee for Ethnographic Museums—he took part in numerous conferences.  Sekelj's polyglot abilities often assured that he alone could understand all of the multi-national speakers there.
In 1983, he co-founded EVA (Esperantist Writers Association and was its first president. In 1986 he was elected to be a member of the Academy of Esperanto.
He took every opportunity to advocate for Esperanto, particularly in the international Writers association PEN and at UNESCO. In 1985, during the 27th Conference in  Sofia, Sekelj was commissioned by UEA to ensure that  Unesco would draft a second resolution that would be favorable to Esperanto .
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