Author Biography
Jane Brierley is a Montreal literary translator, writer, editor, and former president of the Literary Translators Association of Canada. Her translations of science fiction stories have appeared in a number of Tesseract's anthologies, and she has translated three of ?lisabeth Vonarburg's science fiction novels: The Silent City, The MaUrlande Chronicles, and Reluctant Voyagers. In 1990 she won the Governor General's Award for best English translation.Elisabeth Vonarburg is considered one of Canada's most accomplished Science Fiction writers. Born in France in 1947, she immigrated to Canada in 1973 and taught French Literature and Writing at various universities in Quebec. More recently, she has been actively involved in the speculative fiction community as a translator, convention organizer, literary editor, and writer.
