Barbara Bray, a Woman of Letters - Translator, Radio Producer, Scriptwriter, Critic, and Theatre Director

Barbara Bray was an English translator from French to English. She also collaborated with some of the most prestigious minds of the 20th century: Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Losey, Franco Zeffirelli and Marguerite Duras. This literary biography evaluates her contribution to art and literature and the history of ideas.

List of contents

List of Figures
Foreword by Francesca Bray
Acknowledgments
List of acronyms and abbreviations
1. Introduction - 'Transcending cultural differences' (1924-1952)
2. Working as Script Editor during the 'Golden Age' of radio drama in the 1950s
BBC radio before and after the War
Bray as Script Editor
Working with radio drama
Meeting Samuel Beckett
Promoting Harold Pinter
A Broker of French Culture
The art of adapting foreign pieces for radio
On Leaving the BBC
3. Freelancing for BBC radio in the 1960s
Moving to Paris
Continuity and Change
Original Writing
Working with Talks and Features
A Humanist and a Feminist at Work
Fighting for her Rights
4. Working with the moving image in the 1970s
From BBC radio to BBC TV (1964-1968)
'Transposing' Proust's 'story of a vocation'
Galileo
Ibn Saud
An Enabler
5. A Celebrated Translator in the 1980s
Prizes and recognition
Translators and the publishing industry
The Battle of The Lover
From Laurence Sterne to... Nestor Burma
'Translaborating' with Samuel Beckett
6. Conclusion - Dear Conjunction (1991-2010)
A Bilingual Theatre Company in Paris
A Literary Activist
Index

About the author

Pascale Sardin is Professor of English Literature and Translation Studies at Bordeaux Montaigne University (France). She is the author of several books on Samuel Beckett and has edited two volumes of the journal Palimpsestes. With José Francisco Fernández, she edited Samuel Beckett and the Languages of the World (2021). Recently, she also coedited Sexe and Gender in Samuel Beckett/Sexe et genre chez Samuel Beckett, Samuel Beckett Today /Aujourd'hui, 34 (1), 2022.

Summary

Barbara Bray was an English translator from French to English. She also collaborated with some of the most prestigious minds of the 20th century: Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Losey, Franco Zeffirelli and Marguerite Duras. This literary biography evaluates her contribution to art and literature and the history of ideas.

Product details

• Authors: Pascale Sardin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032814278
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281427-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Routledge Research in Women's Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, Media Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Translation & interpretation, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography: writers, Translation and interpretation