Júlia Sigmond (11 July 1929 – 23 March 2020) was a Hungarian-Romanian puppet actor,

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writer and editor. She was born in

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and died in

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.Unuaj esperanto-literatoroj mortas pro la viruso
Esperanta Civito

Career

Júlia Sigmond was a puppet actor of the

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section of the puppet theater of

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. She became an

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in 1956. She was the

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of the magazine ''Bazaro'' and a regular contributor to the magazine ''

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''.

Works

* 2001 – ''Mi ne estas Mona Lisa'', (pub. Bero, Berkeley) * 2008 – ''Kiam mi estis la plej feliĉa en la vivo?'' (compiled by the author), (pub. Triade, Cluj-Napoca) * 2009 – ''Novaj fabeloj pri Ursido Pu kaj Porketo'' (kd) * 2011 – ''Nomoj kaj sortoj'' (12 novels), (pub. Exit, Cluj-Napoca) * 2013 – ''Dialogo'' (original poem with 52 translations), (pub. Exit, Cluj-Napoca) * 2013 – ''Libazar' kaj Tero'' (joint work with Sen Rodin, her husband), (pub. Mondial, New York) * 2015 – ''Kvodlibeto'' (joint work with Sen Rodin, her husband), (pub. Exit, Cluj-Napoca) * 2016 – ''Kvin geamikoj'', (pub. Exit, Cluj-Napoca) * 2017 – ''Fronto aŭ dorsko'', (pub. Dokumenta Esperanto-Centro, Đurđevac) * 2017 – ''Doloro'' (original poem with 54 translations), (pub. Exit, Cluj-Napoca) * 2018 – ''Steĉjo-Fabeloj'', (pub. Exit, Cluj-Napoca) * 2018 – ''Dankon'' (original poem with 62 translations), (pub. Exit, Cluj-Napoca) * 2019 – ''90'', various texts on the occasion of the author's 90th birthday (pub. Exit, Cluj-Napoca)

References

1929 births 2020 deaths Romanian actresses Romanian Esperantists 20th-century Romanian writers 20th-century Romanian women writers Hungarian actresses Hungarian Esperantists 20th-century Hungarian writers 20th-century Hungarian women writers Writers of Esperanto literature Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Emilia-Romagna People from Turda {{Romania-bio-stub