Erih Koš

Erih Koš (Erich Kosch; Serbian Cyrillic: Ерих Кош) (April 15, 1913 – May 25, 2010) was a Yugoslav politician, journalist, writer and translator. He was one of the founders of Pobjeda, the oldest Montenegrin daily.

He was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then a condominium in Austria-Hungary). He graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School and was active as a lawyer from 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. In Nikšić in 1944, he was one of the founders and one of the first journalists working for the Pobjeda. As a journalist, he was also associated with Oslobođenje.

Koš wrote mainly novels and narrations, which treat topics of the resistance or problems in Yugoslav society. In addition to his writing, Koš translated Goethe and Chamisso into Serbo-Croatian. In 1967, he won the 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.