Canada

If you are looking for a book translator in Canada, the work here runs along a bilingual seam rather than a single border. French and English sit side by side, and the translators classified under this tag move writing between them, often for readers on both sides at once.

Jonathan Kaplansky works between French and English, which puts him at the centre of the translation traffic that runs through Montreal and Ottawa rather than across an ocean. Where the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia mostly pull books inward from other languages, Canada's literary translators often move in both directions at once, carrying French-Canadian fiction into English and English-Canadian writing back into French. That two-way habit shapes the work itself: a translator here reads a sentence knowing it may have to survive the return trip.