Jane Brierley


Jane Brierley is a Canadian translator, translating from French to English.
She received a B.A. from Bishop's University in 1956. During the early 1960s, while her husband was completing a degree at the University of Paris, Brierley moved to Paris where she worked at an ad agency. On her return to Quebec, she earned a M.A. from McGill University in 1982 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. 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 Governor General's Award for French to English translation twice as well as appearing on the short list several more times.

Selected works