Apti Bisultanov

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

Since autumn 2002 he has lived in exile in Berlin. Its 5000 people inhabit this home village was razed to the ground in March 2000 by the Russian invading army.

He studied philology and worked as a scholar and lecturer. At the time of independence, he was Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya. Against the Russian army, he fought as a partisan.

In 1992 he was drafted in Chaibach, which is dedicated to the victims of deportation under Stalin, the Chechen National Prize for his poem.

In 2003 he received the Prize of the Foundation in Rotterdam " Poets of all Nations "; at the Leipzig Book Fair he exhibited in 2004 in front of the Kitab -Verlag (Klagenfurt and Vienna ) published volume of poetry, the shadow of a flash ( Chechen- German ). 2006 Bisultanov was awarded city clerk to Rheinberg.

End of March 2007 was initially rejected his application for asylum. The reason for this consideration was suspected on the German -Russian relations. After public protests Bisultanov was finally not granted asylum.

Works

• Bisultanov: Shadow of a flash ( poems, German - Chechen ), Kitab -Verlag, Klagenfurt, Vienna, 2004.
• Apti Bilsultanov with Sabine Amina Judge: Who is the greatest, Chechen fairytales. Province Verlag, Bressanone 2005, ISBN 88-88118-26-8.