Trezoro Huang Yinbao, Esperantist of the Year 2017Stefan MacGill, Esperantist of the Year 2016Chuck Smith, Esperantist of the Year 2015
TheEsperantist of the Year (Esperantisto de la Jaro) is an honorary designation bestowed each year by the editors of theEsperanto-language monthlyLa Ondo de Esperanto (English:The Wave of Esperanto). The award recipient is selected by an international jury led by Halina Gorecka, the Russian publisher of the magazine.
Unlike in previous years, the award in 2025 was given based on an online vote among ordinary Esperantists.
The Esperantist of the Year award was created in 1998.
2008: Ilona Koutny (b. 1953 inHungary) for her continuing competent and successful guidance of the Interlinguistic Studies department at theAdam Mickiewicz University inPoznań
2009: Aleksander Korzhenkov (Александр Корженков, b. 1958), aRussian living inKaliningrad
2018: Hori Jasuo (Japanese:堀 泰雄, b. 1941 in Japan)
2019:Anna Löwenstein (b. 1951), a writer living in theUnited Kingdom, well-known for her literary and educational contributions for decades. This honor is a special recognition of her work creating and contributing to the new website uea.facila.org.
2020: Fernando Maia Jr., the vice president of theUniversal Esperanto Association who oversaw the virtual congress during the Covid-19 pandemic, fromBrazil
2021: Halina Gorecka, a writer and the publisher of the magazineLa Ondo de Esperanto, from Russia
2022: Edmund Grimley Evans, a mathematician and computer scientist from United Kingdom
2023: Sun Mingxiao, a former Esperanto lecturer at theZaozhuang University and the founder of the Esperanto museum in thesame city, from China.[1]
In 2001 Osmo Buller andClaude Piron received an equal number of votes, but according to rules in effect that year, Buller was declared the winner, as more nominators had proposed his name.
