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Kateřina Rudčenková
Alexandra BüchlerAlexandra Büchler was born in Prague, and educated there, in Thessaloniki and in Melbourne. She has lived in Great Britain since 1989. Cultural manager, literary translator and editor, she is Director of Literature Across Frontiers and has translated over twenty books of fiction, poetry, theatre plays, as well as texts on modern art and architecture from English, Czech and Greek. She is the editor of six anthologies of contemporary Czech, Australian, Scottish and Greek short fiction, including This Side of Reality: Modern Czech Writing (1996) and Allskin and Other Tales by Contemporary Czech Women (1998). Her most recent publication is A Fine Line: New Poetry from Central and Eastern Europe (2004), which she co-edited. Among the many authors whose work she has translated are J. M. Coetzee, David Malouf, Jean Rhys, Janice Galloway and Rhea Galanaki.