About

Jonathan Kaplansky

JONATHAN KAPLANSKY won a French Voices Award to translate Nobel Prize winning author Annie Ernaux’s La vie extérieure (Things Seen). His translation of Frank Borzage: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Romantic by Hervé Dumont was a finalist for the Wall Award from the Theatre Library Association. Recent translations include Jonathan Bécotte’s Like a Hurricane, Hélène Rioux’s The End of the World is Elsewhere, and the libretto of an opera by Hélène Dorion and Marie-Claire Blais entitled Yourcenar: An Island of Passions. He has also translated Dorion’s Days of Sand. Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Kaplansky now lives in Montreal.

Books by Jonathan Kaplansky

Not Even the Sound of a River

by (author) Hélène Dorion
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

Like a Hurricane

by (author) Jonathan Bécotte
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

Ethnopsychiatry

by (author) Henri F. Ellenberger
edited by Emmanuel Delille
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

The Cry of Vertières

Liberation Memory and the Beginning of Haiti

by (author) Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

The Cry of Vertières

Liberation, Memory, and the Beginning of Haiti

by (author) Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

Parentheses

by (author) Lise Gauvin
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

Too Much Light for Samuel Gaska

by (author) Étienne Beaulieu
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

Fugitives

by (author) Lise Gauvin & Jonathan Kaplansky

The Girl Before, the Girl After

by (author) Louis-Philippe Hébert
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

Canadian Adventurers and Explorers Bundle

David Thompson / Vilhjalmur Stefansson / Samuel de Champlain / John Franklin / George Simpson / Phyllis Munday

by (author) D.T. Lahey, Tom Henighan, John Wilson, Tom Shardlow, Kathryn Bridge & Francine Legaré
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky

Quest Biographies Bundle — Books 11–20

William Lyon Mackenzie King / René Lévesque / Samuel de Champlain / John Grierson / Lucille Teasdale / Maurice Duplessis / David Thompson / Mazo de la Roche / Susanna Moodie / Gabrielle Roy

by (author) lian goodall, Marguerite Paulin, Francine Legaré, Gary Evans, Deborah Cowley, Tom Shardlow, Heather Kirk, Anne Cimon & André Vanasse
translated by Jonathan Kaplansky & Nora Alleyn