Vinko Kos (10 July 1914 – May 1945) was a Croatian author, poet and children's writer.
[1] Vinko Kos was born in Vučetinec, 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 Bistrović).
Kos attended Varaždin Franciscan Gymnasium and Diocesan Seminary in Škofja Loka.
In 1945, Kos left Zagreb in the Independent State of Croatia evacuation to Austria.
[1] Kos was killed by Tito's partisan regime in Zagreb as a part of the attack on the Croatian intellectual force.