Baldur Ragnarsson
Baldur Ragnarsson (25 August 1930 – 25 December 2018) was an Icelandic poet and author of Esperanto works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland. Esperanto. Baldur learned Esperanto at school in 1949 and was active in the movement to promote the use of this language since 1952. He 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 World Esperanto  Association in charge of culture and education from 1980 to 1986. He was thereafter an honorary member 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. Baldur composed poetic works in Icelandic as well as books on the Icelandic language. He was also written two 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 book contains all the poems he was published subsequently, as well as all the essays he has written on literature and linguistics. All subsequent poetry books (2008 to 2016) were published by Mondial in New York. Poetry Translations into Esperanto In addition, he has published dozens of translations in various journals, in recent times principally in the journal "La tradukisto" . Essays