Erih Koš


Erih Koš was a Yugoslav politician, journalist, writer and translator. He was one of the founders of Pobjeda, the oldest Montenegrin daily.

Biography

He was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School and was active as a lawyer from 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. In Nikšić in 1944, he was one of the founders and one of the first journalists working for the Pobjeda. As a journalist, he was also associated with Oslobođenje.
Koš wrote mainly novels and narrations, which treat topics of the resistance or problems in Yugoslav society. In addition to his writing, Koš translated Goethe and Chamisso into Serbo-Croatian. In 1967, he won the NIN Prize for his novel Mreža.
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 1947Tri hronike - narrations 1949Zapisi o mladim ljudima - 1950Vreme, narrations 1952Čudnovata povest o Kitu Velikom takođe zvanom Veliki Mak, novel 1956Il tifo, a novel 1958Kao vuci, narrations 1958Sneg i led, a novel 1961Novosadski pokolj, a novel 1961Vrapci Van Pea, a novel 1962Prvo lice jednine, narrations 1963Imena, a novel 1964Taj prokleti zanat spisateljski, essays 1965Mreža, a novel 1967Satire, 1968Mešano društvo, narrations 1969Zašto da ne 1971Dosije Hrabak, a novel 1971Cveće i bodlje, narrations 1972The best years, narration dt. 1972Na autobuskoj stanici, narrations 1974U potrazi za Mesijom, 2 Bde., a novel 1978Bosanske priče, narrations 1984Satira i satiričari, essays 1985Šamforova smrt, novel 1986Pisac govora, 1989Uzgredne zabeleške, Aphorisms 1990Miševi, novel 1991

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