JEAN-BENOÎT NADEAU

A RESUMÉ

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 are resisting globalisation.

In 2002, Jean-Benoît Nadeau published a humorous travelogue, Les Français aussi ont un accent (Payot, Paris). With his wife and colleague, Julie Barlow, he published a study of the French, Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong (Sourcebooks, Chicago 2003).This book, which was reviewed by the New York Times, the Daily Telegraph and in the French press, has sold 250 000 copies in four languages (English, French, Dutch, Chinese).

Their latest book, The Story of French, was published in 2006 in Toronto (Knopf Canada), New York (St.Martin’s Press) and London (Robson) – and widely praised. The French translation will be released in the fall of 2007 in Quebec and in the spring of 2008 in France with the title La Grande Aventure de la langue française.

Jean-Benoît Nadeau also published Le Guide du travailleur autonome (Québec/Amérique, 2007), the second edition of a guide on how to manage a self-employed career. In February 2007, he also published Écrire pour vivre (Québec Amérique), a book of advice to writers and journalists.

A popular speaker, Jean-Benoît Nadeau has given seminars and lectures on topics related to France, the French, the French language and professional writing. In October 2004, he gave a tour of lectures in the United States that took him to 12 cities. Among the many awards that he received for his work, Jean-Benoît Nadeau won the Quebec Association of Magazine publishers 2004 Journalist of the Year award.

Jean-Benoît Nadeau has travelled extensively in France, Britain, Mexico, New Zealand, Senegal, Algeria, Israel, and throughout North America, and he has lived in Europe. He speaks and writes in French and in English, and speaks fluent Spanish and rudiments of German.
— September 2007