Sylva Fischerová (born 5 November 1963, Prague) is a Czech poet, prose writer, editor, anthologist, and teacher and translator of Classical literature and philosophy.

[1] She studied French at a language school in Brno, and in 1983 began studies in Philosophy at the Charles University Faculty of Arts in Prague and Physics at the CU Faculty of Mathematics and Physics; in 1985 she transferred to Classical Philology at the same university, where in 1991 she received her M.A., writing her thesis on “The problem of unity of arete in Plato (the Protagorus dialogue)”.

[2] Since 1992 she has been employed as an assistant professor at the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies at Charles University Prague.

Her book-long interview with philosopher Karel Floss won the Czech Literary Foundation Prize in 2011.

[4] She is the daughter of psychologist Jarmila Fischerová (1926–1992) and Josef Ludvík Fischer, the Czech philosopher and first rector of Palacký University after its re-establishment after WW2, in which he played a major role.