What is Baldur Ragnarsson?
[[File:Ragnarsson2005.jpg|thumb|Baldur Ragnarsson, April 2005]] '''Baldur Ragnarsson''' (25 August 1930 &ndash; 25 December 2018) was an [[Iceland]]ic poet and author of [[Esperanto]] works. He was a teacher and a superintendent of schools in Iceland. His best known work was ''[[La lingvo serena]]''. He was in charge of 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]]. He was nominated for the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] following the death of [[William Auld]] in 2006.<ref>[http://www.everk.it/baldur-ragnarsson/BaldurRagnarsson_presentation-letter.pdf Announcement of Esperantlingva Verkista Asocio's Nobel nomination]</ref> Ragnarsson died on 25 December 2018 in Reykjavík at the age of 88.<ref>[http://sezonoj.ru/2018/12/nekrologo-37/ Baldur Ragnarsson passed away (1930-2018)]</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ragnarsson, Baldur}} [[Category:1930 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Icelandic writers]] [[Category:Teachers]] [[Category:Icelandic poets]] [[Category:Esperantists]] {{bio-stub}}