Karel Sýs

Charles Sýs graduated in 1964 and then studied foreign trade at the University of Economics (1969).

Since 1974 he has been editor of the weekly magazine Creation, and since 1976 he has led the cultural section. He was also an active member of the People's Militia and participated in their exercises. After 1980, he began working externally with several publishers in which he was a lecturer in poetry. In 1988, he became deputy editor of the literary magazine Kmen. In 1989, he was awarded the title of meritorious artist.

From 1990 to 1992, he edited the erotic magazine Sextant. In 1993, he was editor of The Home Doctor.

In the 1990s, he mainly created satirical prose, criticizing the conditions in politics and society at the time (Bordel v Čechách, etc.). He is openly affiliated with the GOP, for which he unsuccessfully ran for senate in 1996 in District No. 81 – Uherské Hradiště. Until April 2014, he was the head (co-)editor of the literary annex of The Outline-Tribe newspaper before it was terminated by Daniel Strože. Since May 2014, he has been senior editor of the successor weekly Literature-Art-Culture.

In recent years, he has devoted himself to the creation of historical books that chart the novel form of some chapters of Czech history in the 20th century and are often similar in style to the hateful communist propaganda of the 1950s (BC). Protectorate in Photography, Action Heydrich, Prague 100 years ago).In 2018, President Miloš Zeman awarded him the Medal of Merit of the 1st Degree.

Poetry dominates his work, but in the last twenty years he has also devoted himself to Czech history, the satire of post-revolutionary political development and studies of popular verbosity. Some works were published under the pseudonyms Vaclav Spán and Vera Sýsová, also under the name Kosmas in Our Truth.