Josef Skružný (15 March 1871 in Prague – 12 May 1948) was a Czech writer and journalist. As well as writing under his own name, he used various pseudonyms, including Venouš Dolejš (alternatively Venoušek Dolejš),^[1] Matouš Česnek, and Venouš Huňáček.^[2]

Skružný was born in 1871 in Dolní Krč, which was later merged into Prague.^[2] He was trained as a stone-cutter before becoming a journalist for Humoristické listy, a political satire magazine, where he contributed with short stories and cartoons. During the 1910s he was a friend of other satirists including Josef Lada and Jaroslav Hašek. During the First Republic of Czechoslovakia, Skružný was a popular author of dramatic and satirical novels, many of which were made into films. He named his villa in Zbraslav near Prague, "Venoušek a Stázička", after one of his most successful works.

Skružný began writing film scripts with his nephew, Elmar Klos, in the 1920s.^[3] Together, they wrote five scripts that later developed into feature films, directed by Svatopluk Innemann.^[4]

Skružný died in 1948 in Zbraslav.^[2]

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