Apti Bisultanov is a prominent poet of the Chechen Republic. Apti Bisultanov studied philology

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

 and worked as a senior lecturer, an editor, a publisher, the Vice-Premier. He was also a guerrilla fighter. For the poem «In Hajbahe written», devoted to victims of Stalin deportation of Chechens

Operation Lentil (Caucasus)

Operation Lentil was the Soviet expulsion of the whole of the native Chechen and Ingush populations of the North Caucasus to Siberia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan during World War II....

, he received the National award (1992). Since 2002 Apti Bisultanov lives in Berlin

Berlin

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. He took part in the International literary festival, and receiver a scholarship of Fund of Culture. In 2003 in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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he received Award of fund Poets of all Nations and N (o) Vib-Verlag.