Wing, Betsy

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WING, Betsy

WING, Betsy. (Elizabeth Nelson Wing). American, b. 1936. Genres: Novels, Novellas/Short stories, Translations. Career: Free-lance translator (from French to English) and writer. Oberlin College, visiting instructor, spring, 1989. Publications: Look Out for Hydrophobia (novella and stories), 1990. TRANSLATOR: C. Clement and H. Cixous, The Newly Born Woman, 1986; E. Quinn and P. Daix, The Private Picasso, 1987; D. Hollier, ed., The College of Sociology, 1988; C. Clement, Opera or the Undoing of Women, 1988; D. Hollier, Against Architecture, 1989; (and author of intro.) H. Cixous, The Book of Promethea, 1991; D. Eribon, Michel Foucault (biography), 1991; (with K. Bieber) L. Aubrac, Outwitting the Gestapo, 1993; (and author of intro.) E. Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 1997; P. Constant, The Governor's Daughter, 1997; E. Glissant, Black Salt (poems), 1997; B. Cerquiglini, In Praise of the Variant, 1999; G. Dumezil, The Riddle of Nostradamus, 1999; A. Djebar, So Vast the Prison, 1999; E. Glissant, The Fourth Century, 2001; P. Constant, Trading Secrets, 2001. Address: 665 Ursuline Dr, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, U.S.A.

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