diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0d1edc97f..ed62a593b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #1008: Fix test failures with Python 3.3.
 * #976: Fix gettext does not extract index entries.
 * PR#72: #975: Fix gettext not extracting definition terms before docutils 0.10.
+* #961: Fix LaTeX output for triple quotes in code snippets.
 * #958: Do not preserve ``environment.pickle`` after a failed build.
 * #955: Fix i18n transformation.
 * #940: Fix gettext does not extract figure caption.
diff --git a/sphinx/writers/latex.py b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
index f02a07511..dcb52d507 100644
--- a/sphinx/writers/latex.py
+++ b/sphinx/writers/latex.py
@@ -1494,6 +1494,7 @@ class LaTeXTranslator(nodes.NodeVisitor):
             text = text.replace(u'\n', u'~\\\\\n').replace(u' ', u'~')
         if self.no_contractions:
             text = text.replace('--', u'-{-}')
+            text = text.replace("''", u"'{'}")
         return text
 
     def encode_uri(self, text):