Erih Koš

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Erih Koš (Erich Kosch;

Serbian Cyrillic: Ерих Кош) (April 15, 1913 – May 25, 2010)[1] 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

.

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

Translations published in around ten countries across Europe and in the USA.

References

  1. ^ Erih Koš' obituary Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 19 July 2010 (in Serbian)

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