The Literary Translators’ Association of Canada (LTAC) announced the finalists for the 2023 John Glassco Translation Prize on Oct. 9.

Translations were selected from first book-length translations into French or English published between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.

• D.M. Bradford for House Within a House (Brick House), a translation of Nicholas Dawson’s Désormais, ma demeure (Tryptique, 2020)
• Jennifer Henderson for The Eye of the Master: Figures of the Québécois Colonial Imaginary (McGill-Queen’s University Press), a translation of Dalie Giroux’s essay L’œil du maître. Figures de l’imaginaire colonial québécois (Mémoire d’encrier, 2020)
• Stéphane Martelly for Équateur magnétique (Tryptique), a translation of Kaie Kellough’s Magnetic Equator (McClelland & Stewart, 2019)
• Marie C Scholl-Dimanche for 500 ans de résistance autochtone (Prise de parole), a translation of Gord Hill’s 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010)

All four finalists will receive a one-year membership to LTAC, and the winner receives $1,000.

This year’s jury was composed of Sonya Malaborza, Luba Markovskaia, and Simon Brown.

The winner will be announced on Oct. 28 in Montreal.