Borislav Arapović
Borislav Arapović 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.
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,.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.Poetry
His collection of poems Prolomom was awarded the Bosnia-Herzegovina Croatian Writers' Association's "Antun Branko Šimić Prize" in 2006.Publications
Non-fiction
- Dječja Biblija with Vera Mattelmäki, 1983Miroslav Krleža Den kroatiske guden Mars : tillkomsthistoria, Dissertation in Swedish, 1984.Östgötasonen : Karl Einar Johansson. Swedish biography Stockholm 1988
- Till alla tungomål och folk : Institutet för bibelöversättning 20 år, 1973-1993
- Swedish 1997Hrvatski 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.