Apti Bisultanov

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Apti Bisultanov

Apti Bisultanov (* 1959 in Goitschu , Chechnya ) is a Chechen poet .

Since autumn 2002 he has lived in exile in Berlin. His home village of 5000 inhabitants was razed to the ground by the Russian invasion army in March 2000.

He studied philology and worked as a philologist and lecturer. During the independence period he was the Vice-Prime Minister of Chechnya. He fought as a partisan against the Russian army .

In 1992 he received the Chechen national prize for his poem In Chaibach , which is dedicated to the victims of the deportation under Stalin .

In 2003 he received the “Poets of all Nations” foundation prize in Rotterdam ; At the Leipzig Book Fair in 2004 he presented the book of poems Shadow of a Flash (Chechen-German) published by Kitab-Verlag (Klagenfurt-Vienna) . In 2006, Bisultanov received the town clerk award in Rheinsberg .

At the end of March 2007, his asylum application was initially rejected. The reason for this was assumed to be consideration for German-Russian relations. After public protests, Bisultanov was finally granted asylum.

Works

  • Apti Bisultanov: Shadow of a lightning bolt (poems, German-Chechen) , Kitab-Verlag, Klagenfurt-Vienna 2004.
  • Apti Bilsultanov with Sabine Amina Richter: Who is the greatest, Chechen fairy tale. Provincial Publishing House , Brixen 2005, ISBN 88-88118-26-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bisultanov, Apti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chechen poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Goichu , Chechnya