Alex Zucker

Life and career

Selected translations

• The Opportune Moment, 1855, a novel by Patrik Ouředník.
• Case Closed, a novel by Patrik Ouředník.
• All This Belongs to Me, a novel by Petra Hůlová. Winner of the 2010 National Translation Award.
• Minach, a play by Iva Klestilová Volánková, in Czech Plays: Seven New Works, ed. Marcy Arlin, Gwynn MacDonald, and Dr. Daniel Gerould.
• A Well-paid Walk, subtitles, Dobře placená procházka, dir. Miloš Forman, U.S. premiere, Milos Forman, A Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, February 14–28, 2008.
• "The Game," by Ivan Blatný, in The Drug of Art: Selected poems of Ivan Blatný.
• The Unlucky Man in the Yellow Cap, lyrics and translation of Zuzana Justman's adaptation of the original play with music by J. R. Pick, directed by Marcy Arlin. Other lyrics by Peter Fish, Zuzana Justman, and J. R. Pick.
• City Sister Silver, a novel by Jáchym Topol. Selected for inclusion in the 2006 guide 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
• More Than One Life, a novel by Miloslava Holubová, translated with Lyn Coffin and Zdenka Brodská.
• "The Sightseers" by Michal Viewegh and "Sister" by Jáchym Topol, in Daylight in Nightclub Inferno: Czech Fiction From the Post-Kundera Generation, ed. Elena Lappin.
• "Kchony Sees the World" by Ladislav Fuks, "Honking Horns" by Jiří Gruša, and "A Trip to the Railway Station" by Jáchym Topol, in This Side of Reality: Modern Czech Writing, ed. Alexandra Büchler.
• "GM" by Gustav Meyrink and "A Trip to the Train Station" by Jáchym Topol, in Prague: A Traveler's Literary Companion, ed. Paul Wilson.
• A Trip to the Train Station, a novella by Jáchym Topol.