For South Australian vigneron and wine merchant, seeW. P. Auld.
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Auld was born atErith in Kent, and then moved to Glasgow with his parents, attendingAllan Glen's School. After wartime service as a spitfire pilot in the Royal Air Force, he studied English literature atGlasgow University, and then qualified as a teacher.[1]
In 1952 he married his childhood sweetheart Margaret (Meta) Barr Stewart, also an Esperantist, and had two children. In 1960, he was appointed to a secondary school inAlloa and he remained there for the rest of his life. He was nominated for theNobel Prize in Literature in 1999, 2004, and 2006, making him the first person nominated for works in Esperanto.[2]
Hismasterpiece,La infana raso (The Infant Race), is a long poem that, in Auld's words, explores "the role of the human race in time and in the cosmos," and is partly based onThe Cantos byEzra Pound.[3]
Auld began to learn Esperanto in 1937 but only became active in the propagation of the language in 1947, and from then on wrote many works in Esperanto. He edited various magazines andreviews, includingEsperanto en Skotlando (1949–1955),Esperanto (1955–1958, 1961–1962),Monda Kulturo (1962–1963),Norda Prismo (1968–1972),La Brita Esperantisto (1973–1999) andFonto (1980–1987).[4]
He died in Dolair/Dollar, Clackmannanshire, and is buried in Dollar churchyard. The grave lies on the approach path to the church from the main road.[citation needed]
