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Alexandra Büchler Alexandra Büchler i(A89495 works by) (a.k.a. Alexander Buchlerova)
Writing name for: Alexandra Karakostas-Seda
Gender: Female
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3 y separately published work icon Vombat Jirka je statečný Eva Papoušková , Galina Miklínová (illustrator), ( trans. Alexandra Büchler with title George the Brave ) Cardiff : Graffeg , 2022 24517789 2019 single work picture book children's

'Nová pozorování vombatů v Austrálii vedla k zajímavým vědeckým objevům. Například způsob, jakým se vombat vyrovnává s krajní situací a svým nepřítelem, vedl autorku Evu Papouškovou k  napsání druhého vombatího příběhu – tentokrát o nebezpečí. A to si pište, že má dobrý konec. Liška Vilhelmína, která plánovala sežrat celou vombatí rodinku, neslavně ostrouhá způsobem, jakým se to ve skutečnosti děje i v moudré přírodě.'

Source: Mladá fronta.


'George the Wombat journeys outside of his burrow and into a dark forest, where he meets a wily and cunning fox. The fox likes the look of George for dinner and George is so scared he can’t move! Can George get the courage to show the fox his brave side and get away from danger using a tactic only a wombat would know?'

Source: Graffeg.

3 y separately published work icon Vombat Jirka Eva Papoušková , Galina Miklínová (illustrator), ( trans. Alexandra Büchler with title George the Wombat )with title George the Wombat : A Potty Companion ) Cardiff : Graffeg , 2021 24517663 2016 single work picture book children's

'Vombat je zvláštní zvířátko, které žije na druhé straně zeměkoule, až v daleké Austrálii. Hrozně rádo spí a taky hrozně rádo hrabe díry. I malý vombatí kluk Jirka je rád hrabe jako jeho tatínek. Jenomže i malí vombati musí chodit na nočník. A tak maminka rozhodne – nejdřív nočník, pak hrabání. Jirka sedí a sedí, ale na nočníku se mu nedaří. Chodí kolem něj kamarádi a udílejí mu všemožné přátelské rady, co dělat, aby se dařilo. Klokan radí skákat, husa zase hodně pít… Dopadne to samozřejmě kýženým, i když trochu překvapivým, výsledkem – koneckonců tato nesmírně vtipná a krásně ilustrovaná kniha pomůže těm nejmenším dětem a jejich rodičům, aby to na nočníku vždycky dobře dopadlo.'

Source: Mladá fronta.


'A tender, humorous picture book helping to introduce potty training to young children through the character of George the Wombat. George wants to play, but Mummy Wombat tells him he has to use the potty before he leaves. George is finding it very difficult until he gets some advice from his friends and Papa Wombat and he is finally successful!'

Source: Graffeg.

3 New Born i "You were not one of us", Antigone Kefala , 1973 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Alien 1973; (p. 6) Wayfarers and Other Poems 2010; (p. 10)

— Appears in: Tập Hợp , July no. 2 1987; (p. 36-37)

— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 280-281)
2 The Old Palace i "The winds blew restless", Antigone Kefala , 1983 single work poetry
— Appears in: Meanjin , Autumn vol. 42 no. 1 1983; (p. 28) Joseph's Coat : An Anthology of Multicultural Writing 1985; (p. 77) European Notebook 1988; (p. 15) Absence : New and Selected Poems 1992; (p. 76)

— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 282-283)
1 Translating Antigone Kefala's Poetry into Czech Alexandra Büchler , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antigone Kefala : A Writer's Journey 2013; (p. 274-275)
3 12 y separately published work icon Fetish Lives Gail Jones , ( trans. Alexandra Büchler with title Prevteleni Madame Tussaudove a jine príbehy ) Prague : One Woman Press , 2001 Z541380 1997 selected work short story
43 18 y separately published work icon Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee , ( trans. Alexandra Büchler with title Čekání na barbary ) Prague : Nakladatelstvi Apsida , 2001 6303247 1980 single work novel 'How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on nothing more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would learn to respect them.

After twenty years of peacefully running one of the Empire’s settlements, a magistrate takes pity on an enemy barbarian who has been tortured. He enters into an awkward intimate relationship with her, and then is himself imprisoned as an enemy of the state.

Waiting for the Barbarians is a disturbing political fable about oppression, the fraught desire for reparation, and about living with a troubled conscience under an unjust regime.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

3 14 y separately published work icon Greylands Isobelle Carmody , ( trans. Alexandra Büchler with title Serokraj : Pohadkovy Pribeh ) Prague : One Woman Press , 1999 Z146394 1997 single work children's fiction children's fantasy '"After a long, long moment, the sound faded, though the air seemed still to throb with the awful anguish of it. 'What was that?' he whispered."

'One wakeful night in the aftermath of his mother's death, Jack enters a land devoid of colour or scent.

'Here he meets the tragic laughing beast and Alice, a strange girl with a secret.

'Will Jack escape before the terrifying wolvers find him?

'Or is he destined to be trapped in the Greylands forever?

'Only the cats know ...' (From the Ford Street website.)
1 y separately published work icon Izobary : Povidky Janette Turner Hospital , Alexandra Büchler (translator), Alexandra Büchler , Prague : One Woman Press , 1999 Z1127329 1999 selected work short story A selection of stories from Dislocations and Isobars; the selection was made by the translator (correspondence with author).
4 23 y separately published work icon Absence : New and Selected Poems Antigone Kefala , ( trans. Alexandra Büchler with title Absence : Selected Poems from Collections / Nepritomnost : Vybor ze Sbirek ) Prague : Marie Chribkova , 1998 Z140787 1992 selected work poetry
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