Borislav Arapović

Borislav Arapović
Born (1935-04-11) 11 April 1935
Bišina Nevesinje,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Occupation Poet and writer

Borislav Arapović (born Bišina Nevesinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 11 April 1935)[1] is a Bosnian-Croatian born poet, linguist, literary scholar and Bible translator. He adopted Swedish nationality and writes in Swedish and Croatian. In 1999 he was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences primarily for his services to minority languages.[2]

Studies

Arapović studied at the Economic Faculty, University of Zagreb 1960-65. He came to Sweden as a refugee in 1965. He first got work at the retail chain Kooperativa Förbundet and then at IBM in Stockholm. Meanwhile, he was studying for a doctorate at the School of Slavonic and Baltic Languages, Stockholm University, (Ph.D. in Slavic languages 1984).

Institute for Bible Translation, 1973

Arapović founded the Institute for Bible Translation in Stockholm in 1973 to publish Bibles for "non-Slavic peoples in Slavic countries," and provide not just Bible translations into the languages of Russia but also Central Asian languages.[3]

Poetry

His collection of poems Prolomom (2005) was awarded the Bosnia-Herzegovina Croatian Writers' Association's "Antun Branko Šimić Prize" in 2006.

Publications

Non-Fiction

Poetry (in Croatian)

References

  1. biography in Swedish Borislav Arapović , Invandrade "Han föddes 1935 i Bisini, Hercegovina, och är av kroatiskt ursprung"
  2. croatia-org
  3. ibt.org.ru (English)
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