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Borislav ArapovicPoet, writer, publicist
Date of Birth: 11.04.1935
Country:  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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Biography of Borislav Arapovich
Borislav Arapovich is a poet, writer, and publicist, as well as a member of the Swedish Society of Slavists and the Writers' Union of Sweden. He is also affiliated with the Union of Croatian Writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Arapovich, who is of Croatian nationality, was born in 1935 in Bosnia, Yugoslavia.
Education and Career
In 1965, Arapovich completed his studies at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Zagreb. Later that year, he emigrated to Sweden. In 1973, he founded the East Bible Institute in Stockholm, which later became the Institute for Bible Translation in 1979. He served as the head of this institution from 1973 until 1997.
Arapovich pursued his studies in Slavic linguistics at the Faculty of Slavic and Baltic Languages at Stockholm University. In 1984, he successfully defended his dissertation on the topic of "Miroslav Krleža: Croatian God Mars - Origin, Style, Genre."
Contributions
From 1990 to 1992, Arapovich lived in Russia and established the Russian branch of the Institute for Bible Translation in Moscow in 1992. He was awarded the Lev Tolstoy Medal by the Russian Children's Fund for his creation of the Children's Bible in 1992. In 1996, he was granted the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Arapovich was later elected as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1999.
Arapovich's poetry is characterized by its genre allusion to biblical lamentation. Much of his work is dedicated to the memory of his fellow countrymen who perished during the Croatian War of Independence from 1991 to 1995. As a firsthand witness to the conflict, his poetry is deeply imbued with a strong personal sense of empathy towards the fate of the Croatian people.
Arapovich has been instrumental in the extensive translation of the Bible into non-Slavic languages of the former Soviet Union. He established the Institute for Bible Translation in Sweden for this purpose. His work began with the search and republication of Bible translations from the 19th century (1973-1975). Subsequently, from 1975 to 1990, he organized new translations of the Bible abroad. When the opportunity arose to work in Russia, he founded the Russian branch of the Institute for Bible Translation in Moscow to continue his efforts.
Arapovich is the author of fundamental bibliographic works on Bible translation in various periods of history and in different regions of Europe and Asia. He initiated the republication of the Explanatory Bible edited by A. P. Lopukhin in a new three-volume version and compiled the widely known Children's Bible in Russia and abroad.
