Jean-Benoît Nadeau

Jean-Benoît Nadeau (born in 1964) is a Canadian author, journalist, and lecturer, and a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs.

He is the author of The Bonjour Effect and Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong which he co-wrote with his wife, Julie Barlow.

[1] Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Jean-Benoît Nadeau received a bachelor's degree from McGill University in 1992 where he majored in Political Science and History.

Over the years, his byline has appeared in articles (mostly op-ed pieces), in USA Today, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Toronto Star and The Wall Street Journal.

[1] In 1999, Nadeau was granted a two-year fellowship from the Institute of Current World Affairs to travel to France and study the reasons why the French were resisting globalization.

[4] This book was adapted into a two-hour radio documentary, Le français n’a pas dit son dernier mot (French Language Has Not Said Its last Word), broadcast by France Culture in July 2014.

2011 L’Académie des Science d’Outre-Mer (The Academy of Overseas Sciences) Prix de la Renaissance Française (French Renaissance Award)[12] 2007 Quebec Writer's Federation Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction[13] As a journalist, he also won two dozen different awards, mostly in Quebec and Canada.