For the fictional character in the Doctor Who TV series, please see Barbara Wright (Doctor Who) Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television on November 23, 1963. ... Barbara Wright is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and a companion of the First Doctor. ...

Barbara Wright (b. 1935) is a prolific translator of recent French literature. Authors she has translated include Raymond Queneau, Alfred Jarry, Tristan Tzara, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Pinget and Samuel Beckett. She is professor of French literature at Trinity College Dublin. Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—the target text, also called the translation. ... French literature is literature written in the French language; and especially, literature written in French by citizens of France; it may also refer to literature written in other languages of France. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Raymond Queneau (February 21, 1903 - October 25, 1976) was a French poet and novelist. ... Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873–November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mothers side, a fact which would have a profound impact on some of his writings. ... Tristan Tzara (April 16, 1896 - December 25, 1963) is the pseudonym of Sami Rosenstock, born in Moineşti, Bacău, Romania. ... Nathalie Sarraute, born July 18, 1900 in Ivanovo, Russia - died October 19, 1999 in Paris, France, was a lawyer and a Francophone writer of Russian origin. ... Robert Pinget (Geneva, July 19, 1919 - Tours, August 25, 1997) was a major avant-garde French writer, born in Switzerland, who wrote several difficult novels and other prose pieces that drew comparison to Beckett and other major Modernist writers. ... Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (April 13, 1906 – December 22, 1989) was an Irish playwright, novelist and poet. ...