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Barbara Winifred Wright (13 October 1915 – 3 March 2009) was an English translator of modern French literature.

Translations

from Renouard & Kelly below.

  • Stefan Themerson & Franciszka Themerson: (translated from Polish with Stefan Themerson) Mr Rouse Builds His House. 1950
  • Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi (illustrated by Franciszka Themerson). 1951.
  • Raymond Queneau: The Trojan Horse; At the Edge of the forest. 1954.
  • Christian Dietrich Grabbe: Comedy, Satire. Irony and Deeper Meaning (translation from German, illustrated by Franciszka Themerson). 1955.
  • Pol-Dives: The Song of Bright Misery. 1955.
  • Raymond Queneau: Exercises in Style. 1958.
  • Raymond Queneau: Zazie in the Metro. 1960.
  • Monique Lange: The Catfish in New Writers 1. 1960.
  • Fernando Arrabal: Orison; The Two Executioners; Fernando and Lis; The Car Cemetery in Plays. vol. 1 1962.
  • Andrée Martinerie: Second Spring. 1962.
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet: Snapshots and Towards a New Novel. 1965.
  • Marguerite Duras: The Long Absence. 1966.
  • Raymond Queneau: Between Blue and Blue. 1967.
  • Fernando Arrabal: Guernica; The Labyrinth; The Tricycle; Picnic on the Battlefield; The Condemned Man's Tricycle in Plays. vol. 2. 1967.
  • Raymond Queneau: A Blue Funk and Dino in French Writing Today. 1968.
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet: In the Corridors of the Underground in French Writing Today. 1968.
  • Raymond Queneau: The Bark Tree. 1968.
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet: The Secret Room in The Penguin Book of French Short Stories. 1968.
  • André Couteaux: Portrait of the Boy as a Young Wolf/My Father's Keeper. 1968.
  • Alfred Jarry: The Supermale. 1968.
  • Roland Dubillard: The Swallows. 1969
  • Roland Dubillard: The House of Bones. 1971.
  • Jean Genet: The Balcony. 1971.
  • Pierre Lauer: The Suns of Badarane. 1971.
  • Robert Pinget: The Libera Me Domine. 1972
  • Raymond Queneau: The Flight of Icarus. 1973.
  • Yves Klein: Selected Writings. (in part). 1974
  • Robert Pinget: Recurrent Melody. 1975.
  • Ludovic Janvier: The Bathing Girl (revision of translation by John Matthew). 1976
  • Raymond Queneau: The Sunday of Life. 1976.
  • Sylvia Bourdon: Love is a Feast. 1977.
  • Tristan Tzara: Seven Dada Manifestoes and Lampisteries. 1977.
  • Robert Pinget: Passacaglia. 1978.
  • Roland Topor: Leonardo Was Right. 1978
  • Herbert Le Porrier: The Doctor From Cordoba. 1979.
  • Simone Benmussa: The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs. 1979
  • Robert Pinget: Fable. 1980.
  • Nathalie Sarraute: It is There and other plays. 1980
  • Simone Benmussa: 'Appearances' in Gambit No. 35. 1980
  • Muriel Cerf: 'Blitz-Fortune' in Real Life – Writers from Nine Countries Illuminate the Life of the Modern Woman. 1981
  • Raymond Queneau: We Always Treat Women Too Well. 1981
  • Robert Pinget: Between Fantoine and Agapa. 1982.
  • Robert Pinget: That Voice. 1982.
  • Nathalie Sarraute: The Use of Speech. 1982
  • Nathalie Sarraute: Childhood. 1983
  • Romain Gary: King Solomon. 1983
  • Michel Tournier: The Fetishist and Other Stories. 1983
  • Robert Pinget: Someone. 1984.
  • Henri Guigonnat: Daemon in Lithuania. 1985
  • Eugène Ionesco: Journeys Among the Dead. 1985
  • René de Obaldia: Monsieur Klebs and Rosalie in Plays Vol. 4. 1985
  • Michel Tournier: A Garden at Hammamet. 1986
  • Robert Pinget: The Apocrypha. 1986.
  • Pierre Albert-Birot: The First Book of Grabinoulor.1986
  • Robert Pinget: Abel and Bela.. 1987.
  • Michel Tournier: 'The Golden Droplet. 1987
  • Raymond Queneau: Pierrot Mon Ami. 1987.
  • Robert Pinget: Monsieur Songe with The Harness, Plough. 1988.
  • Robert Pinget: A Bizarre Will. 1989.
  • Elisabeth Badinter: The Unopposite Sex [Man/Woman: The One is the Other]. 1989
  • Raymond Queneau: The Last Days. 1990.
  • Raymond Queneau: Alfred in Journal of Literary Translation. vol. XXIII. 1990
  • Liliane Siegel: In the Shadow of Sartre. 1990
  • Nathalie Sarraute: You Don't Love Yourself. 1990
  • Robert Pinget: The Enemy. 1991.
  • Michel Tournier: Totems. 1991
  • Michel Tournier: The Midnight Love Feast. 1991
  • Pascal Quignard: Georges de La Tour. 1991
  • Jean Genet: The Balcony. 1991
  • Patrick Modiano: Honeymoon. 1992
  • Jean Hamburger: The Diary of William Harvey. 1992
  • Robert Pinget: Be Brave. 1994.
  • Robert Pinget: Theo, or The New Era. 1994.
  • Alberto Giacometti: The Dream, The Sphinx and The Death of T. in Grand Street in Space No. 54. 1995
  • Coline Serrau: Lapin, Lapin. 1995
  • Samuel Beckett: Eleutheria. 1996
  • Jean Rouaud: Of Illustrious Men. 1996
  • Nathalie Sarraute: Here. 1997
  • Jean Rouaud: The World, More or Less. 1997
  • Stefan Themerson: Fragments From Darkness. 1998
  • Robert Pinget: Traces of Ink. 1998.
  • Aude Yung-de Prévaud: Jacques & Lotha. 2000
  • Simone Benmussa: Three Plays. (The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, Appearance and The Death of Ivan Illich) in collaboration with Donald Watson 2000
  • Raymond Queneau: Five Stories: Panic; Dino; At the Edge of the Forest; A Blue Funk; The Trojan Horse. 2000.
  • Pierre Albert-Birot: 31 Pocket Poems. 2003
  • Raymond Queneau: Introduction and comments with extracts from Zazie, Pierrot, and The Flight of Icarus, in "Tolling Elves 5" February 2003 to celebrate Queneau's centenary.
  • Robert Pinget: Trio (Between Fatoine and Agapa, That Voice, Passacaglia). 2005.
  • publication of script for radio adaptation of Exercises in Style broadcast on 25 December 1959 by the BBC with introduction by Barbara Wright. 2006.
  • Robert Pinget: Film script: 15 Rue des Lilas. in Renouard & Kelly. 2013

Also various plays, libretti (three by Mozart), artists' manifestos, composers' programme notes, introductions, forewords and postscripts.




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