Borislav Arapović
Borislav Arapović | |
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| Born | 11 April 1935 Bišina Nevesinje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Poet and writer |
Borislav Arapović (born Bišina Nevesinje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
His collection of poems Prolomom (2005) was awarded the Bosnia-Herzegovina Croatian Writers' Association's "Antun Branko Šimić Prize" in 2006.
Publications[edit]
Non-Fiction[edit]
- Dječja Biblija (Children's Bible) with Vera Mattelmäki, 1983
- Miroslav Krleža Den kroatiske guden Mars ("The Croatian god Mars"): tillkomsthistoria, ISBN 91-7146-340-2 Dissertation in Swedish, 1984.
- Östgötasonen : Karl Einar Johansson. ("Son of Östgötland") Swedish biography Stockholm 1988
- Till alla tungomål och folk : Institutet för bibelöversättning 20 år, 1973-1993
- ("Biblical Silk Road - Memories of IBT 1973-1998.") Swedish 1997
- Hrvatski mirospis 1778. 1999.
- Krigsdimmor : från Kroatien och Bosnien-Hercegovina 1991-1995. - Stockholm : Codices, 2002
- Between despair and lamentation Translated from Croatian by Ivana Pozajić Jerić Elmhurst College, 2002. ISBN 0-9715120-0-0
Poetry (in Croatian)[edit]
- Zvončići ("Jingle Bells") 12 booklets of verses for children, 1977.
- Iz noćnog dnevnika 1989.
- Tamnionik 1992
- Kamenopis 1993
- Povratak hrvatskih pukovnija 1779. 2000
- Prolomom ("Fractures") Mostar Biblioteka Suvremenici ISBN 9958-798-11-5
References[edit]
- ^ 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"
- ^ croatia-org
- ^ "ibt.org.ru (English)". Archived from the original on 2014-02-17. Retrieved 2012-04-06.
| International | |
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| National | |
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- 1935 births
- Living people
- People from Nevesinje
- Croat writers from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 20th-century Croatian poets
- Swedish people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent
- Bible translators
- Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 21st-century Croatian poets
- Croatian-language poets
- Swedish-language writers
- Croatian male poets
- 20th-century Swedish male writers
- 21st-century male writers