Borislav Arapovic

Education

Arapović studied at the Economic Faculty, University of Zagreb 1960-1965. Meanwhile he was studying for a doctorate at the School of Slavonic and Baltic Languages, Stockholm University, (Doctor of Philosophy in Slavic languages 1984).

Career

He adopted Swedish nationality and writes in Swedish and Croatian. He came to Sweden as a refugee in 1965. He first got work at the retail chain Kooperativa Förbundet and then at International Business Machines Corporation in Stockholm.

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.

Achievements

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

Membership

In 1999 he was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences primarily for his services to minority languages.