About Jane Brierley
Born 1935. Jane Brierley is a Canadian journalist and writer.
Jane Brierley (born 1935) is a Canadian translator, translating from French to English.
She received a B.A. from Bishop's University in 1956.
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
Source: 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 Marcel Trudel, received the Governor General's Award for Translation
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Canadian translator
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