Vinko Kos

Vinko Kos (10 July 1914 – May 1945) was a Croatian author, poet and children's writer.

Biography

Vinko Kos was born in Vučetinec, a village in the parish of Sveti Juraj na Bregu in the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia on 10 July 1914, to Petar Kos and his wife Ana (née Bistrović). Vinko's mother died in 1942 of tuberculosis and his father died in 1945.

He leaves studies in 1936 and in 1937 starts writing for newspaper such as Luč, Hrvatska prosvjeta, Hrvatska revija, Hrvatska straža, Hrvatsko jedinstvo, Obitelj, Glasnik sv. Ante, Hrvatska smotra, Hrvatski ženski list, Omladina, Seljačka omladina, Jutarnji list, Morgenblatt, Plava revija, Danica, Hrvatska mladost, Hrvatska misao, Hrvatski godišnjak and many others.

List of works Vodopad (1939) Kipar (1941) Božićne zvjezdice (1941) Zlatna jabuka (1942) Dušenka (1943) Šišmiš (1943) Divlji dječak (1943) Lada (1944) - Winner of The City of Zagreb Award in 1945 Planinski dječak (1945) Zlatni orasi (published after his death in Toronto in 1967, by Lucijan Kordić) Sabrana djela 1-2 (Čakovec, 1997)

Composed songs Dom ("Home", Jakov Gotovac) Mura voda teče ("Mura water flows", Krsto Odak) Cmreki v snegu spiju (I. Sokač) Ljubav ("Love", Lada Kos) Veter ("Wind", Lada Kos)