Jane Brierley (born 1935) is a Canadian translator, translating from French to English. She received a

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in 1956. During the early 1960s, while her husband was completing a degree at the

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, Brierley moved to

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where she worked at an ad agency. On her return to Quebec, she earned a

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in 1982 based on translating works by Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé into English. Brierley also worked for the Montreal bureau of ''

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'' as an editorial translator. She has served as president of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada. Brierley has translated books on philosophy, history and biography, children's literature and science fiction. She has won the

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twice as well as appearing on the short list several more times.

Selected works

* ''White Desert'' (1986), translated from ''Le Désert blanc'' by , received the Félix-Antoine Savard Award from the translation centre of

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* ''Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence'' (1990), translation of Aubert de Gaspé, received the Governor General's Award for Translation * ''The Maerlande Chronicles'' (1992), translation of ''Les chroniques du pays des Mères'' by Elisabeth Vonarburg, shortlisted for the

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* ''Canadians of Old'' (1996), translation of ''Les Anciens Canadiens'' by Aubert de Gaspé * ''Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian's Life'' (2002), translation of ''Mémoire d'un autre siècle'' by

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, received the Governor General's Award for Translation

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