Borislav Arapović

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Borislav Arapović
Born (1935-04-11) 11 April 1935 (age 89)
Bišina Nevesinje,
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
OccupationPoet and writer

Borislav Arapović (born Bišina

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

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 Archived 2012-09-23 at the Wayback Machine Borislav Arapović , Invandrade "Han föddes 1935 i Bisini, Hercegovina, och är av kroatiskt ursprung"
  2. ^ croatia-org
  3. ^ "ibt.org.ru (English)". Archived from the original on 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2012-04-06.