title: Erih Koš
text: Erih Koš (Erich Kosch; Serbian Cyrillic: Ерих Кош) (April 15, 1913 – May 25, 2010) was a Jewish Bosnian writer and translator. He was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then a condominium in Austria-Hungary).
  
  Biography
  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
   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
  
  External links 
   Serbian Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Serbian Website; photography)
  
  1913 births
  2010 deaths
  Writers from Sarajevo
  Jewish Bosnian writers
  Bosnia and Herzegovina writers
  Serbian translators
  Serbian novelists
  Serbian male short story writers
  Serbian short story writers
  Serbian non-fiction writers
  Serbian science fiction writers
  Yugoslav science fiction writers
  Serbian literary critics
  Literary critics of Serbian
  Serbian autobiographers
  German–Serbian translators
  Members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
  University of Belgrade Faculty of Law alumni
  20th-century Serbian novelists
  20th-century translators
  20th-century short story writers
  20th-century male writers
  Male non-fiction writers