Canadian journalists Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow have spent the last decade working extensively in both of their country’s official languages.
Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1964, Jean-Benoît Nadeau holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from McGill University. A journalist since 1987, he has written for L’actualité, Saturday Night Magazine, National Post Business, and Quebec Science.
The holder of seventeen journalism awards, he was granted a two-year fellowship in 1998 by the New Hampshire–based Institute for Current World Affairs to study why the French resist globalization. In 2001, he published a humorous travelogue, Les français aussi ont un accent (Payot, Paris). He has also traveled in Mexico, the UK, New Zealand, and Algeria.
Born in Ancaster, Ontario, in 1968, Julie Barlow holds an honour’s degree in political science from McGill University and a master’s in English Literature from Concordia University. Over the last decade, she has written for Saturday Night Magazine, Report on Business Magazine, L’actualité, Chatelaine and other Canadian magazines. In 1998, she worked as Editor-in-Chief of English-language projects at Montreal-based publisher Les Éditions Ma Carrière. In 2003, she published Same Words, Different Language (Piatkus, London) with international gender expert Barbara Annis. She has traveled extensively throughout Europe, North Africa, Israel, Turkey, the Caucasus, Mexico, the UK, and New Zealand.
The couple is now based in Montreal, where they are living happily in French and English while producing their next book, The Story of French.
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0 有用 chuier 2018-01-30 12:37:56
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0 有用 加拿大网友 2013-01-20 10:19:29
看完了,这本书是一对加拿大夫妇在世纪之交到法国做访问学者的结果,应该算通俗读物吧,其中介绍了法国的历史、社会、政治等很多方面,还包含了一些欧洲相关的话题,对法国、法兰西文化有兴趣的读者可以找来读一读,你还会发现法国和中国的有不少相类似的地方。