Alexandra Karakostas-Seda (International) assertion Alexandra Karakostas-Seda i(A27085 works by)
Also writes as: Alexandra Büchler
Born: Established: 1955
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Former Czechoslovakia,
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Eastern Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
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3 y separately published work icon Vombat Jirka je statečný Eva Papoušková , Galina Miklínová (illustrator), Czech Republic : Mladá Fronta , 2019 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), Czech Republic : Mladá Fronta , 2016 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 , South Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1997 Z541380 1997 selected work short story
43 18 y separately published work icon Waiting for the Barbarians J. M. Coetzee , London : Secker and Warburg , 1980 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 , Ringwood : Puffin , 1997 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 , Sydney : Hale and Iremonger , 1992 Z140787 1992 selected work poetry
12 167 y separately published work icon An Imaginary Life : A Novel David Malouf , New York (City) : George Braziller , 1978 Z828578 1978 single work novel (taught in 8 units)

'In prose that is both elegant and lyrical, David Malouf departs from the little-known facts of Ovid's exile beyond the pale of civilization to create a deeply moving novel of extraordinary beauty. An outcast in a vast wasteland at the edge of the Black Sea, Ovid discovers a feral child. As he teaches the boy to speak the language of the civilized world, the child tutors him in his own tongue, the language of nature, and the once barren landscape begins to resonate with meaning.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 12 y separately published work icon A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers Sneja Gunew , Lolo Houbein , Alexandra Karakostas-Seda , Jan Mahyuddin , Geelong : Deakin University. Centre for Studies in Literary Education , 1992 Z517445 1992 single work bibliography biography
1 y separately published work icon Creative Writing in Latvian in Australia Alexandra Karakostas-Seda , Sydney : Latvian Press Society , 1990 Z857164 1990 single work bibliography biography
1 Writers Without Readers, Writers Without Books? Alexandra Karakostas-Seda , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 48 no. 4 1989; (p. 671-679)
1 Untitled Alexandra Karakostas-Seda , 1986 single work review
— Appears in: Outrider : A Journal of Multicultural Literature in Australia , December vol. 3 no. 2 1986; (p. 192-195)

— Review of I Logotechniki Parousia ton Ellinon stin Afstralia 1985 anthology poetry drama extract short story biography
1 2 y separately published work icon Writing in Multicultural Australia 1984 : An Overview (Papers Presented at the Multicultural Writers' Weekend in Sydney 13 and 14 October 1984 and in Melbourne 27 and 28 October 1984) Jaques Delaruelle (editor), Alexandra Karakostas-Seda (editor), Anna Ward (editor), North Sydney : Australia Council , 1985 Z424476 1985 anthology criticism poetry
1 Untitled Alexandra Karakostas-Seda , 1984 single work review
— Appears in: Outrider : A Journal of Multicultural Literature in Australia , June vol. 1 no. 1 1984;

— Review of The Observatory : Selected Poems of Dimitris Tsaloumas Dimitris Tsaloumas , 1983 selected work poetry
1 Forty Years of Greek Writing in Australia, 1943-1983 Alexandra Karakostas-Seda , 1984 single work
— Appears in: Outrider : A Journal of Multicultural Literature in Australia , December vol. 1 no. 2 1984; (p. 138-148)
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