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Author
Apti Bisultanov, born in 1959 in Goichu, Chechnya, studied philology, worked as a lecturer, editor, and publisher of the children’s magazine “Raduga” (Rainbow). In 1979 the Chechen literary club “Parmat” (Prometheus) was forcibly dissolved and its members, among them Apti Bisultanov, were banned as “anti-Soviet”. In 1986 Apti Bisultanov’s first volume of poetry “Noch – ze – tschö” (Plow – Fire – House) was published. In 1988 followed the volume “Zcha Illi” (The Song), in 1991 “Tkesan Indare” (Shadow of a Lightning). It contains, among others, the poem “What happened in Chaibach”, dedicated to the victims of deportation under Stalin. In 1999 Apti Bisultanv was appointed by President Aslan Maskhadov as Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs, and in 2000 he went to the mountains with the partisans. His native village of Goichu was completely destroyed by attacks of Russian artillery. Apti Bisultanov’s poems have been translated into Russian, Turkish, Finnish, German and other languages. Travels have taken him to Central Asia, Poland, Finland, Turkey, the United States, and Germany, where he participated in the 2002 Berlin International Literature Festival. Apti Bisultanov was a fellow of the Stiftung Kulturfonds in 2003 and currently lives in Berlin. On May 24/25, 2003, he received the 2003 Award of the Poets of All Nations Foundation and N(o)vib Publishing House in Rotterdam. In 2004 a selection of his poems and the poem “In Chaibach verfasst” were published by Kitab Verlag Klagenfurt.
Events
Schatten eines Blitzes: Poems from Chechnya
Tue, 7. Jul // 16:00,
Maschinenhaus (Kulturbrauerei) entrance: Knaackstraße 97, 10435 Berlin
