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Fiction Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence

by (author) Phillipe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé

translated by Jane Brierley

Publisher
Vehicule Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1998
Category
Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550650020
    Publish Date
    Jan 1998
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

These fireside tales, now translated for the first time, were originally published posthumously in 1893. Brierley's introduction and annotations provide fascinating insights into the life and times of one of the fathers of Canadian literature.

About the authors

In 1988 Jane Brierley was a Governor General's Award finalist for A Man of Sentiment: The Memoirs of Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé. In 1990 she won the Governor General's Award for her translation of de Gaspé's stories, Yellow-Wolf & Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence.

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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 Élisabeth Vonarburg's science fiction novels: The Silent City, The Maërlande Chronicles, and Reluctant Voyagers. In 1990 she won the Governor General's Award for best English translation.

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Editorial Reviews

"This beautiful little book, handsomely embellished ... has enormous archival value." --Globe & Mail

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