Erih Koš (April 15, 1913 – May 25, 2010) was a Serbian writer and translator of Jewish origin. He was born in Sarajevo

Sarajevo

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, Austria-Hungary

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He graduated from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law

University of Belgrade Faculty of Law

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 and was active as a lawyer

Lawyer

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 since 1935. In 1941, he participated in the resistance fight and held many different political-cultural positions during and after the Second World War in communist Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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. Koš wrote mainly novels and narrations, which treat topics of the resistance or problems of the Yugoslav society. Beside the telling work he wrote spirit-rich essays and translated Goethe and Chamisso into Serbian

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In 1967, he won prestigious NIN Prize

NIN Prize

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 for his novel Mreža (The Net).

In 1978 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts

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in the Department of Language and Literature.

Works

• U vatri - narrations 1947
• Tri hronike - narrations 1949
• Zapisi o mladim ljudima - 1950
• Vreme, narrations 1952
• Čudnovata povest o Kitu Velikom takođe zvanom Veliki Mak, novel 1956
• Il tifo, novel 1958
• Kao vuci, narrations 1958
• Sneg i led, novel 1961
• Novosadski pokolj, novel 1961
• Vrapci Van Pea, novel 1962
• Prvo lice jednine, narrations 1963
• Imena, novel 1964
• Taj prokleti zanat spisateljski, essays 1965
• Mreža, novel 1967
• Satire, 1968
• Mešano društvo, narrations 1969
• Zašto da ne 1971
• Dosije Hrabak, novel 1971
• Cveće i bodlje, narrations 1972
• The best years, narration dt. 1972
• Well autobuskoj stanici, narrations 1974
• U potrazi za Mesijom, 2 Bde., novel 1978
• Bosanske priče, narrations 1984
• Satira i satiričari, essays 1985
• Šamforova smrt, novel 1986
• Pisac govora, 1989
• Uzgredne zabeleške, Aphorisms 1990
• Miševi, novel 1991

Translations published in around ten countries across Europe and in the USA.

External links

• Serbian Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbian Website; photography)