Radoš Kosović


Radoš Kosović is a Serbian writer and translator.

Biography

Radoš Kosović grew up in his native place and attended the prestigious philological gymnasium, where he was taught with a focus on Latin and Ancient Greek. After his graduation with maturity diploma, he began studying Scandinavian languages and literature with focus on Norwegian and Danish at the department of Germanic languages of the Philological Faculty of Belgrade’s University and continued postgraduate studies at the University of Agder. In 2010, he obtained his master degree with thesis on The word in the wilderness: rhetoric and nature of Jon Fosse, Tor Ulven and J.S. Welhaven. The young academic taught Norwegian language and literature as a junior researcher at the Philological Faculty in Belgrade from 2012 to 2014, and he is lecturer at KONTEXT foreign language center in his native town.
He is translator of numerous Norwegian and Danish works by Henrik Ibsen, Maria Parr, Linn Ullmann, Erlend Loe, K. O. Knausgård, Jo Nesbø, Merethe Lindstrøm, A. L. Kielland, Jostein Gaarder, Lars Svendsen, Espen Hammer, Tone Hødnebø, Dorthe Nors, Karen Blixen, Jakob Martin Strid, Kristian Bang Foss and Jens Bjørneboe. His extensive translation work is a noteworthy contribution to the Scandinavian-Serbian cultural exchange and he already received two renowned Serbian awards for literary translation therefore. Kosović said in an interview related to his work: Translating is the most intimate encounter with literary work. Kosović is a member of the Association of Serbian Literary Translators and lives in Vračar.
In addition to his translating activity, he has already drawn attention to himself in an artistic sense with two of his own literary works. The award-winning novel Carnival is a surreal narrative about one night in the lives of several characters, during a venetian-style and seemingly neverending carnival in an unnamed fictional city. The volume Eremites is a collection of short stories, for the most part inspired by the temptations of Saint Anthony.

Works

Novel
Translation