Donald Harlow (July 8, 1942 – January 27, 2008) was an active

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 ...

and former president of

Esperanto-USA Esperanto-USA (E-USA) is the largest organization for speakers and supporters of Esperanto in the United States. It was founded in 1952 as the Esperanto League for North America (ELNA) in Sacramento, California. Headquartered in Portland, Maine, ...

(E-USA, formerly Esperanto League for North America or ELNA), and also former

editor Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, photographic, visual, audible, or cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing process can involve correction, condensation, or ...

of ELNA's magazine '' Esperanto USA''. He authored a self-published book on the Esperanto movement, ''The Esperanto Book'', which is available online. He also created the websites Esperanto Access (Esperanto pages for English speakers) and Literaturo en Esperanto, an extensive index of online Esperanto literature. In 2007, the annual ELNA translation contest was renamed in his honor the Harlow Prize (or Premio Harlow)."ELNA Announces the Harlow Prize for Translations of American Poetry into Esperanto"
(dead link, no archive found) It was established to celebrate and promote the translation of

American literature American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition thus is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also inc ...

into Esperanto.

References

External links

The Esperanto BookEsperanto Access
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Directory of Literaturo
1942 births 2008 deaths American Esperantists Linguists from the United States {{Esperanto-stub