Q&Q asked Canadian literary agents to share some of their favourite foreign-edition covers.

To get a sense of how dramatically a book’s design can change from market to market, take a look at the photos of Andrew Kaufman’s 2010 novella The Tiny Wife (Cormorant Books will publish the Canadian edition in summer 2014).

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“ Anne McDermid & Associates

Andrew Pyper's The Killing Circle, Portguese edition (Editorial Presença)

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“ Anne McDermid & Associates

Andrew Westoll's The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, Polish edition (Czarne)

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“ Westwood Creative Artists

Padma Viswanathan's The Toss of a Lemon, Dutch edition (Mistral Uitgevers)

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“ The Cooke Agency

Dianne Warren's Juliet in August (published in Canada as Cool Water), U.S. edition (Penguin)

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“ The Cooke Agency

C.S. Richardson's The Emperor of Paris, U.K. edition (Portobello Books)

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“ The Cooke Agency

Patrick Lane's Red Dog, Red Dog, U.K. edition (Random House U.K.)

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“ The Rights Factory

Andrew Kaufman's The Tiny Wife, U.S. 100-copy limited edition for charity (Madras Press)

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“ The Rights Factory

Andrew Kaufman's The Tiny Wife, U.K. paperback edition (The Friday Project/HarperCollins U.K.)

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“ The Rights Factory

Andrew Kaufman's The Tiny Wife, U.K. hardcover edition (The Friday Project/HarperCollins U.K.)

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“ The Rights Factory

Andrew Kaufman's The Tiny Wife, Swedish paperback edition (Printz Publishing)

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“ The Rights Factory

Andrew Kaufman's The Tiny Wife, Swedish hardcover edition (Printz Publishing)

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“ The Rights Factory

Andrew Kaufman's The Tiny Wife, Spanish edition (Capitan Swing Libros)

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“ The Rights Factory

Andrew Kaufman's The Tiny Wife, Japanese edition (Tokyo Sogensha)

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“ The Rights Factory

Andrew Kaufman's The Tiny Wife, French-Canadian edition (Éditions Alto)

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“ Anne McDermid & Associates

Linda McQuaig and Neil Brook's The Trouble with Billionaires, U.K. edition (Oneworld)

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“ Anne McDermid & Associates

Alison Pick's Far to Go, U.K. edition (Headline)

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“ Anne McDermid & Associates

Nancy Lee's Dead Girls, French edition (Buchet/Chastel)

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“ Anne McDermid & Associates

Andrew Pyper's The Demonologist, Chinese edition (Beijing Time Publishing)

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“ Anne McDermid & Associates

Peggy Blair's The Beggar's Opera, Dutch edition (Bruna)

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“ P.S. Literary Agency

Colin Mochrie's Not Quite the Classics, U.S. edition (Penguin)

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“ P.S. Literary Agency

Gail Vaz-Oxlade, Debt-Free Forever, Indian edition (Global Vision Press)

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“ Westwood Creative Artists

Ian Brown's The Boy In The Moon, Korean edition (Bookie Publishing House)

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“ Westwood Creative Artists

Roméo Dallaire's Shake Hands With The Devil, French-Canadian edition (Libre Expression)

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“ Westwood Creative Artists

Alice Kuipers' Life on the Refrigerator Door, French edition (Éditions Albin Michel)

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“ Westwood Creative Artists

Yann Martel's Life of Pi, German edition (S. Fischer Verlag)

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Ann Dowsett Johnston's Drink, Australian edition (HarperCollins Australia)

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“ Westwood Creative Artists

Doug Saunders, Arrival City, Dutch edition (De Bezige Bij)

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“ Westwood Creative Artists

Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance, German edition (S. Fischer Verlag)

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