He spent his early life in Szigetszentmiklós, where he finished his primary school years.

Károly was educated as a geologist and began to write in the 1970s.

He published his first poems in Élet és Irodalom (“Life and Literature”).

Károly was married to Annamária Szklenkay (born 1958), with whom he had five children.

Károly died of a brain tumor on 26 October 2018.