Erih Koš
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
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
- 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
- ^ Erih Koš' obituary Archived 2012-03-06 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 19 July 2010 (in Serbian)
External links
- Serbian Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbian Website; photography)