Jane Brierley has translated books on philosophy, history and biography, children’s literature and science fiction from French into English. She has won the Governor General’s Award for French to English translation twice, and was featured on the short list several more times. In 1982, she earned a M.A. from McGill University based on translating works by Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé into English. Brierley also worked for the Montreal bureau of The Globe and Mail as an editorial translator. From 1990 to 1994, she served as president of the Literary Translators’ Association of Canada. Brierley

Translated works

  • Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life (2002), by Marcel Trudel, Véhicule Press (Governor General’s Award for Translation).
  • Canadians of Old (1996), by Aubert de Gaspé, Véhicule Press.
  • Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence (1990), by Aubert de Gaspé, Véhicule Press (Governor General’s Award for Translation).
  • White Desert (1986), by Jean Éthier-Blais, Véhicule Press.