Eli Urbanová (8 February 1922 – 20 January 2012) was a Czech poet, novelist, and Esperantist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel Hetajro dancas.
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Born | Eliška Vrzáková (1922-02-08)8 February 1922 Čáslav, Czechoslovakia |
Died | 20 January 2012(2012-01-20) (aged 89) Prague, Czech Republic |
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Spouse | Štěpán Urban (1942–1955) |
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Urbanová published her first story in the Czech language in 1935 when she was 13 years old, and her first book of poems, Zrcaldo, was published in 1940 under a pseudonym. In 1942, she married Štěpán Urban.[1] She learned Esperanto in 1948 and wrote her first Esperanto poem in 1950.[2] Urbanová worked as a music teacher in Czechoslovakia, teaching piano, violin, and violoncello.[3] In 1956, she was a co-founder of the Internacia Verkista Asocio.[2] She published her first book of Esperanto poems in 1960.[4]
Urbanová is considered to be one of the most important Esperantist writers.[5] Her work has been described as focusing on "the thoughts and feelings of the female soul" and making "even the most ordinary objects become symbols in her poems".[6][7] William Auld described her as a successor to Julio Baghy.[2]