Name Erih Kos Role Writer | Books Mreze Awards NIN Award | |
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Died May 25, 2010, Belgrade, Serbia Education Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade | ||
Erih Koš (Erich Kosch; Serbian Cyrillic: Ерих Кош) (April 15, 1913 – May 25, 2010) was a Serbian writer and translator of Jewish origin. He was born in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary.
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
Translations published in around ten countries across Europe and in the USA.