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Alexandra Berková

Born

in Trenčín, Slovakia

July 02, 1949

Died

June 16, 2008

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Alexandra Berková (July 2, 1949 – June 16, 2008) was a Czech writer and educator.

The daughter of an orchestra conductor and a journalist, she was born in Trenčín and studied Czech literature and applied arts at Charles University in Prague. 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.

Narodila se 2. července 1949 v Trenčíně. Jejím otcem byl dirigent symfonického orchestru Bohumil Berka a matka byla nov Alexandra Berková (July 2, 1949 – June 16, 2008) was a Czech writer and educator.

The daughter of an orchestra conductor and a journalist, she was born in Trenčín and studied Czech literature and applied arts at Charles University in Prague. 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.

Narodila se 2. července 1949 v Trenčíně. Jejím otcem byl dirigent symfonického orchestru Bohumil Berka a matka byla novinářka. Od devíti let až do vysokoškolských studií žila v Teplicích. Maturovala na SUPŠ sklářské v Kamenickém Šenově a v letech 1968–1973 studovala na FF UK v Praze češtinu a výtvarnou výchovu. Absolvovala prací o literárněkritických sporech Karla Čapka ve 30. letech, tuto později rozšířila na rigorózní – titul PhDr. získala v roce 1980.

Pracovala například jako redaktorka v nakladatelstvích Svoboda (1973–79)
a Československý spisovatel (1979–81), později také jako uklízečka v kostele. Časopisecky debutovala roku 1976 v Literárním měsíčníku povídkou Miniromán, knižně pak v roce 1986 sbírkou Knížka s červeným obalem. Stála u zrodu Obce spisovatelů, byla rovněž vůdčí osobností Hejna českých spisovatelů Mamut a od roku 2006 byla členkou výboru českého PEN klubu. Věnovala se psaní televizních scénářů, rozhlasových her a publicistice.

Z později rozvedeného manželství s malířem Vladimírem Novákem (* 1947) vzešla dcera Nikola Nováková (* 1975), malířka.

Po roce 1990 začala učit tvůrčí psaní na Gymnáziu Josefa Škvoreckého, poté na VOŠ Josefa Škvoreckého a na Literární akademii – zde také od roku 2001 vedla katedru tvůrčího psaní. Patřila k průkopníkům tohoto oboru v Česku a pro časopis Tvar psala "manuál na pokračování" O psaní.

Žila v Praze, kde také 16. června 2008 zemřela. ...more

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Average rating: 3.69 · 173 ratings · 21 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Temná láska 3.76 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knížka s červeným obalem 3.76 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daylight in Nightclub Inferno: Czech Fiction from the Post-Kundera Generation by Elena Lappin (Editor), Jiří Kratochvil, Marta Kadlečíková 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	O psaní 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magorie liked it 3.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Už tě nemiluju by Petr Šabach, Ivan Klíma, Miloš Urban 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Utrpení Oddaného Všiváka 2.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Banální příběh 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Co teď a co potom? by Alexandra Berková, Libor Dvořák really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1992	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Абсурдия. Убийствена любов by Alexandra Berková, Александра Беркова, Анжелина Пенчева (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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