Anna Löwenstein (also spelt Lowenstein; born 1951) is a British
Esperantist
An Esperantist ( eo, esperantisto) is a person who speaks, reads or writes Esperanto. According to the Declaration of Boulogne, a document agreed upon at the first World Esperanto Congress in 1905, an Esperantist is someone who speaks Esperant ...
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, ''Radio Polonia
Radio Poland (until January 2007 as Radio Polonia, later "Polish Radio External Service" ( pl, Polskie Radio dla Zagranicy), in Polish legislation also named as Polskie Radio Program V) is the official international broadcasting station of Pola ...
(in Esperanto). Retrieved 5 November 2010 She worked for the
World Esperanto Association 1977–1981. Under the name Anna Brennan she founded and was editor of the feminist magazine ''Sekso kaj Egaleco'' 1979–1988,
[Sutton, Geoffrey]
Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto
pp. 572–73 (Mondial 2008) () and she edited the 'easy language' section of
Kontakto
''Kontakto'' is an Esperanto magazine published by TEJO and supported by the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA). The magazine has readers in about 90 countries of the world. It started in 1963 through a proposal of the UEA committee by Humphre ...
1983–1986. She has written some non-fiction, and two novels. Her historical novel ''The Stone City''
[Löwenstein, Anna. ''The Stone City'' (1999) ()] (La Ŝtona Urbo), was first published in English and Esperanto in 1999, and has since been translated into French (2010) and Hungarian (2014). Her second novel ''Morto de artisto''
[Löwenstein, Anna. ''Morto de artisto'' (2008) ()] (2008) was published in Esperanto. She is well known as a journalist, teacher and activist in the Esperanto movement, and has been a member of the
Academy of Esperanto
The Akademio de Esperanto (AdE; en, Academy of Esperanto, link=yes) is an independent body of Esperanto speakers who steward the evolution of said language by keeping it consistent with the ''Fundamento de Esperanto'' in accordance with the Decla ...
since 2001.
Anna has more than 20 years of experience in teaching
Esperanto.
She is married to
Renato Corsetti, a former president of the World Esperanto Association. The couple lived together in Italy from 1981, but since 2015 they have been living in the UK.
Her father was the actor
Heinz Bernard
Heinz Bernhard Löwenstein, known as Heinz Bernard (22 December 1923 – 18 December 1994) was a British actor and director and theatre manager. Of Polish-Jewish and German-Jewish descent, he lived and worked in Israel from 1971-81. He trained a ...
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References
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1951 births
20th-century British novelists
20th-century British women writers
21st-century British novelists
21st-century British women writers
British Esperantists
Living people
Writers of Esperanto literature