Alexandra Berkova

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.

Her work appears in English translation in the following collections: