Alexandra Berková (2 July 1949 – 16 June 2008) was a

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writer and educator. The daughter of an orchestra conductor and a journalist, she was born in

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and studied Czech literature and applied arts at

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. From 1973 to 1981, she worked as an editor for a publishing house and, after 1905, as a high school teacher in creative arts. From 1983 to 1991, Berková wrote for Czechoslovak Television. After the 1989 Revolution, she helped organize the Writers' Council and helped found the feminist group New Humanity. She married the painter Vladimír Novák and they had two children but later separated. Her work appears in English translation in the following collections: * ''Description of a Struggle: The Picador Book of Contemporary East European Prose'' (1994) * ''Daylight in Nightclub Inferno: Czech Fiction from the Post-Kundera Generation'' (1997) * ''Allskin and Other Tales by Contemporary Czech Women'' (1998) * ''Povidky: Short Stories by Czech Women'' (2006)

Selected works

* ''Knížka s červeným obalem'' he Little Book with the Red Cover short stories (1986) * ''Magorie aneb Příběh velké lásky'' agoria or A Tale of Great Love novel (1991) * ''Utrpení oddaného všiváka'' orrows of a Devoted Scoundrel novel (1993) * ''Temná láska'' ark Love(2000) * ''Banální příběh'' anal Story(2004)

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* 1949 births 2008 deaths Czech novelists Czech educators Czech women educators Czech-language writers Czech women screenwriters Charles University alumni Czech women novelists People from Trenčín Czech women short story writers Czech short story writers 20th-century Czech screenwriters {{CzechRepublic-writer-stub