Erih Koš

Erih Koš (Erich Kosch; Serbian Cyrillic: Ерих Кош) (April 15, 1913 – May 25, 2010)[http://www.naslovi.net/2010-05-25/b92/preminuo-erih-kos/1742660 Erih Koš' obituary] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306030409/http://www.naslovi.net/2010-05-25/b92/preminuo-erih-kos/1742660 |date=2012-03-06 }} retrieved 19 July 2010 {{in lang|sr}} was a Jewish Serbian writer and translator. He was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then a condominium in Austria-Hungary).

Biography

He graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School and was active as a lawyer 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. 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.

In 1967, he won prestigious NIN Prize for his novel Mreža (The Net).

In 1978 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 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; translated into English as The Strange Story of the Great Whale Also Known as Big Mac, 1962
Il tifo, a novel 1958
Kao vuci, narrations 1958
Sneg i led, a novel 1961
Novosadski pokolj, a novel 1961
Vrapci Van Pea, a novel 1962
Prvo lice jednine, narrations 1963
Imena, a novel 1964
Taj prokleti zanat spisateljski, essays 1965
Mreža, a novel 1967
Satire, 1968
Mešano društvo, narrations 1969
Zašto da ne 1971
Dosije Hrabak, a novel 1971
Cveće i bodlje, narrations 1972
The best years, narration dt. 1972
Na autobuskoj stanici, narrations 1974
U potrazi za Mesijom, 2 Bde., a 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