Erih Koš

Erih Koš (Erich Kosch; Serbian Cyrillic: Ерих Кош) (April 15, 1913 – May 25, 2010) 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 (then a condominium in Austria-Hungary). 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 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 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