Vinko Kos (10 July 1914 â May 1945) was a Croatian author, poet and children's writer.
Vinko Kos was born in VuÃÂetinec, a village in the parish of Sveti Juraj na Bregu in the Austro-Hungarian Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia on 10 July 1914, to Petar Kos and his wife Ana (née BistroviÃÂ). Vinko's mother died in 1942 of tuberculosis and his father died in 1945.
He went to primary school to his village and continued his schooling thanks to Stjepan Horvat, a poet from Sveti Juraj na Bregu. Horvat helped him because Vinko was talented, but also very poor. Kos attended Varaà ¾din Franciscan Gymnasium and Diocesan Seminary in à  kofja Loka. He studied Croatian and German studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.
He leaves studies in 1936 and in 1937 starts writing for newspaper such as LuÃÂ, Hrvatska prosvjeta, Hrvatska revija, Hrvatska straà ¾a, Hrvatsko jedinstvo, Obitelj, Glasnik sv. Ante, Hrvatska smotra, Hrvatski à ¾enski list, Omladina, SeljaÃÂka omladina, Jutarnji list, Morgenblatt, Plava revija, Danica, Hrvatska mladost, Hrvatska misao, Hrvatski godià ¡njak and many others.
With the collections of poems Vodopad ("Waterfall", 1939), Kipar ("Sculptor", 1941) and the poem à  ià ¡mià ¡ ("Bat", 1943), he gained a reputation as a meditative and mystical poet. He also published the Kajkavian collection Lada (1944), inspired by the native landscape. He wrote poems (some of which were composed), stories and plays for children under the pseudonyms ÃÂika Niko and ÃÂiÃÂa Niko. Children's plays, radio dramas, novellas and travelogues were found in his legacy.
Kos was associate of Blessed Alojzije Stepinac. On his suggestion, Kos opened DjeÃÂji grad ("Children's town"), an educational institution for pre-school children. In 1945, Kos left Zagreb in the Independent State of Croatia evacuation to Austria.
Kos was killed by Tito's partisan regime in Zagreb as a part of the attack on the Croatian intellectual force.