Jean-Benoit Nadeau
Born December 20th, 1964, Jean-Benoît Nadeau completed a degree in Political Science and History at McGill University in 1992. Since then, he has published 5 books and 900 magazine articles, and won 33 awards and mentions in journalism. He now ranks among the few Canadian journalists to publish both in French (L’Actualité, Québec Science, Commerce) and in English (Saturday Night Magazine, National Post Business, Report on Business Magazine, and Profit). In June 1998, he won a two-year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs, in Hanover, NH. His topic of study: why the French resist globalisation.
Jean-Benoît Nadeau has published Le Guide du travailleur autonome (Québec/Amérique, 1997), a guide on how to manage a self-employed career. In 2002, the humorous travelogue Les Français aussi ont un accent (Payot, Paris) was published. In 2007, he published in French a new book of advice to writers and journalists, Écrire pour vivre (Québec Amérique).
He also writes book with his wife and colleague, Julie Barlow. Their study of the French, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong (Sourcebooks, Chicago 2003) has sold nearly 200 000 copies in four languages (French, Dutch, Chinese). In 2006 the couple published a follow-up, The Story of French (Knopf Canada).
A popular speaker, Jean-Benoît Nadeau has also given seminars and lectures on topics related to France, the French, the French language and professional writing. Among the many awards that he received for his work, Jean-Benoît Nadeau received from the Quebec Association of Magazine publishers the 2004 award for the best journalist of the year.
