Editing William Auld

{{Short description|Scottish poet, author, translator (1924–2006)}}
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'''William Auld''' (6 November 1924 – 11 September 2006) was a British poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in [[Esperanto]].

==Life==
[[File:The grave of William Auld, Dollar churchyard.jpg|thumb|Auld's grave in [[Dollar, Clackmannanshire|''Dollair'']] churchyard]]
Auld was born at [[Erith]] in Kent, and then moved to Glasgow with his parents, attending [[Allan Glen's School]]. After wartime service as a spitfire pilot in the Royal Air Force, he studied English literature at [[Glasgow University]], and then qualified as a teacher.<ref>[http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=1361492006 Obituary] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070210203805/http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/obituaries.cfm?id=1361492006 |date=10 February 2007 }} ''[[The Scotsman]]''; accessed 4 December 2016.</ref>

In 1952 he married his childhood sweetheart Margaret (Meta) Barr Stewart, also an Esperantist, and had two children. In 1960, he was appointed to a secondary school in [[Alloa]] and he remained there for the rest of his life. He was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in 1999, 2004, and 2006, making him the first person nominated for works in Esperanto.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1529478/William-Auld.html|title=William Auld|date=22 September 2006|work=Telegraph|publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited|access-date=22 April 2010}}</ref>

His [[masterpiece]], ''La infana raso'' (''The Infant Race''), is a long poem that, in Auld's words, explores "the role of the human race in time and in the cosmos," and is partly based on ''[[The Cantos]]'' by [[Ezra Pound]].<ref>(en) Paul Gubbins, [https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/19/obituaries.readersobituaries William Auld], [[The Guardian]], 19. Sept. 2006</ref>

Auld began to learn Esperanto in [[1937]] but only became active in the propagation of the language in [[1947]], and from then on wrote many works in Esperanto. He edited various magazines and [[review]]s, including ''[[Esperanto en Skotlando]]'' (1949–1955), ''[[Esperanto (magazine)|Esperanto]]'' (1955–1958, 1961–1962), ''[[Monda Kulturo]]'' (1962–1963), ''[[Norda Prismo]]'' (1968–1972), ''[[La Brita Esperantisto]]'' (1973–1999) and ''[[Fonto]]'' (1980–1987).<ref>[https://blogs.transparent.com/esperanto/william-auld/ William Auld], Transparent Language, 30. April 2009</ref>

He was Vice President of the [[Universal Esperanto Association]] (1977–1980), President of the [[Academy of Esperanto]] (1979–1983), and President of the Esperanto [[International PEN|PEN]] Centre (1999–2005). He donated his personal collection of nearly 5000 [[Esperanto literature|books in and about Esperanto]] to the [[National Library of Scotland]], where it is now housed,<ref>{{cite web |title=Esperanto |url=https://www.nls.uk/collections/rare-books/collections/esperanto |website=National Library of Scotland |access-date=10 July 2021 |language=en}}</ref> in 2001.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

He died in Dolair/[[Dollar, Clackmannanshire]], and is buried in Dollar churchyard. The grave lies on the approach path to the church from the main road.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

==List of works==

===Collected poetry===
*''Spiro de l' pasio'' (in [[Kvaropo]], 1952)
*''La infana raso'' (1956)
*''Unufingraj melodioj'' (1960)
*''Humoroj'' (1969)
*''Rimleteroj'' (with [[Marjorie Boulton]], 1976)
*''El unu verda vivo'' (1978)
*''En barko senpilota'' ([[Edistudio]], 1987)
*''Unu el ni'' (1992)

===Anthologies===
*''Angla antologio 1000–1800'' (poetry editor, 1957)
*''Esperanta antologio'' (1958/1984)
*''25 jaroj'' (poetry editor, 1977)
*''Skota antologio'' (associate editor, 1978)
*''Sub signo de socia muzo'' (1987)
*''Nova Esperanta Krestomatio'' (1991)
*''Plena poemaro: Miĥalski'' (ed. 1994)
*''Tempo fuĝas'' (1996)

===Translations from English===
*''La balenodento'', by [[Jack London]] (1952)
*''Epifanio'', by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] (1977)
*''La urbo de terura nokto'', by [[James Thomson (B.V.)|James Thomson]] (1977)
*''Don Johano, Kanto 1'', by [[Lord Byron]] (1979)
*''La robaioj de Omar Kajam'', by [[Edward FitzGerald (poet)|Edward Fitzgerald]] (1980)
*''La sonetoj'', de [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] ([[Edistudio]], 1981)
*''Fenikso tro ofta'', by [[Christopher Fry]] (1984)
*''Montara vilaĝo'', by [[Chun-chan Je]] (1984)
*''La graveco de la Fideliĝo'', by [[Oscar Wilde]] (1987)
*''La komedio de eraroj'', by [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]] (with [[Asen M. Simeonov]], 1987)
*''Omaĝoj. Poemtradukoj''  (1987)
*''Gazaloj'', by [[Hafiz Shirazi|Hafiz]] (1988)
*''Spartako'', by [[Lewis Grassic Gibbon|Leslie Mitchell]] (1993)
*''La stratoj de Aŝkelono'', by [[Harry Harrison (writer)|Harry Harrison]] (1994)
*''Teri-strato'', by [[Douglas Dunn]] (1995)
*''La kunularo de l' ringo'', by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (1995)
*''La du turegoj'', by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (1995)
*''La reveno de la reĝo'', by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (1997)
*''La hobito'', by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (poems and songs; with [[Christopher Gledhill]], 2000)
*''La Hobito, aŭ Tien kaj Reen'', by [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (poems and songs; with Christopher Gledhill, Evertype 2015, {{ISBN|9781782011101}}, {{ISBN|9781782011095}})
*''Kantoj, poemoj kaj satiroj'', by [[Robert Burns]] (with [[Reto Rossetti]], 1977)
*''Jurgen'', by [[James Branch Cabell]] (2001)

===Translations===
*''Aniaro'', by [[Harry Martinson]] (from [[Swedish language|Swedish]] with [[Bertil Nilsson]], 1979)
*''[[Julia on Pandataria]]''

===Song collections===
*''Floroj sen kompar<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' (with [[Margaret Hill (poet)|Margaret Hill]], 1973), British folksongs translated into Esperanto 
*''Kantanta mia bird<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' (with Margaret Hill, 1973), British folksongs translated into Esperanto
*''Dum la noktoj'' (with Margaret and [[David Hill (poet)|David Hill]], 1976), original songs

===Textbooks===
*''Esperanto: A New Approach;'' (1965)
*''Paŝoj al plena posedo'' (1968)
*''A first course in Esperanto'' (1972)
*''Traduku! '' (1993)

===Bibliographies===
:''Bibliografio de tradukoj el la angla lingvo'' (with E. Grimley Evans, 1996)

===Essay collections===
*''Facetoj de Esperanto'' (1976)
*''Pri lingvo kaj aliaj artoj'' (1978)
*''Enkonduko en la originalan literaturon de Esperanto'' (1979)
*''Vereco, distro, stilo'' (1981)
*''Kulturo kaj internacia lingvo'' (1986)
*''La fenomeno Esperanto'' (1988)
*''La skota lingvo, hodiaŭ kaj hieraŭ'' (1988)

===Miscellaneous literature===
:''Pajleroj kaj stoploj: elektitaj prozaĵoj'' (1997)

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071009131151/http://www.everk.it/phpwcms_filestorage/4/4_3.pdf The Infant Race] – an English translation of ''La infana raso'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20071009130642/http://www.everk.it/phpwcms_filestorage/4/4_4.pdf The Bairnlie Race] – a [[Scots language|Scots]] translation of ''La infana raso''
*[http://www.everk.it/pdf/la-infana-raso-skotgaela.pdf An Cinneadh Leanabail] – a [[Scots Gaelic]] translation of ''La infana raso''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030430235637/http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/Revuoj/nlr/nlr41/auld/mateno.html Septembra mateno]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030125022652/http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/Revuoj/nlr/nlr32/rimleteroj/ Rimleteroj] (between William Auld and [[Marjorie Boulton]])
*[http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/search/label/William%20Auld Auld's poetry in English translation] at ''Poems Found in Translation''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100515050553/http://esperanto.ie/esperanto/indekso.htm "William Auld – ''Master Poet of Esperanto''"] by Girvan McKay. Includes 3 translations of Auld's work ''La infana raso'' into English, Scots & Gaelic
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=-Z_8CG9g2jIC ''Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto: 1887–2007'']. Geoffrey Sutton, 2008. Mondial. {{ISBN|1595690905}}, {{ISBN|9781595690906}}. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130201063904/http://librejo.com/enciklopedio/index.html Publisher's page for the book]; accessed 4 December 2016.
*{{Cite journal|last=Kalivoda|first=Nick|date=2012|title=William Auld|url=https://esperanto-ondo.ru/Ondo-pdf/Lo-215.pdf|journal=[[La Ondo de Esperanto]]|issue=8-9 (214-215)|pages=22}}
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