Věra Nosková

She experienced hardship in a variety of low-paid jobs (shop-fitter, labourer, railway level crossing gate operator, confectioner, cleaning lady, draughtswoman of the Architects´ Cooperative, Conservationists´ archive-keeper, employee of a public education organisation, waitress).

Later she established her own publishing house, which has issued publications on popular science by respected members of the skeptical club Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos, prosaic works by other authors and also her own novels and stories.

Věra Nosková was a co-founder of the voluntary association of Czech skeptics and for three years also president of the Český klub skeptiků Sisyfos.

Her poetry was also presented on stage in "Zelené peří" (Green feathers), performed by Mirek Kovářík in Rubín theatre, Prague.

She cooperated externally with newspapers Lidové noviny and MF DNES, Czech journals Reflex, Print and Publishing, Packaging, Sanquist, Listy, and with Rozmer and Prometheus in Slovakia.

Her first novella, reflecting previous experience from journalist work, called That man will die ("Ten muž zemře") was published by Čs.

The collection of humorous short stories and essays Let the girls cry ("Ať si holky popláčou") was nominated for the Božena Němcová award.

In 2014, reedition of revised and expanded collection of short stories Let the girls cry ("Ať si holky popláčou") was followed by children´s book Friend Jak (September 2014).

The Club has held periodic lectures for the public in the building of the Czech Academy of Sciences, issued its in-house Bulletin and granted the anti-prize called Bludný balvan (Erratic Block).