Borislav Arapović (born Bišina Nevesinje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 11 April 1935)[1] is a Bosnian-Croatian born poet, linguist, literary scholar and Bible translator.
In 1999 he was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences primarily for his services to minority languages.
[2] Arapović studied at the Economic Faculty, University of Zagreb 1960-65.
He first got work at the retail chain Kooperativa Förbundet and then at IBM in Stockholm.
[3] His collection of poems Prolomom (2005) was awarded the Bosnia-Herzegovina Croatian Writers' Association's "Antun Branko Šimić Prize" in 2006.