Professional Experience
For three decades Julie has been working as a magazine writer and nonfiction author in both English and French, and as a French-English translator. She has published 8 books, including The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed (St Martin’s Press), co-authored with her husband and writing partner Jean-Benoit Nadeau.
Her first book Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong became an international bestseller translated into 6 languages. Her book The Story of French won Quebec’s 2007 Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction and the 2011 Prix La Renaissance Française (French Renaissance Award) from Académie des Sciences d’Outre-Mer (The Academy of Overseas Sciences) in Paris. Julie has won numerous writing grants throughout her career including three Canada Council Grants for Professional Writers and a Fulbright Fellowship for Professional Writing.
In 2023, Julie published a comprehensive guide to self-employment, Going Solo: Everything You Need to Start Your Business and Succeed as Your Own Boss, with Jean-Benoît Nadeau, which draws on the couple’s three decades’ experience as freelance writers.
Julie’s newspaper and magazine articles have appeared across Canada, the United States and Europe in publications like The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Globe and Mail, USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, Le Courrier international and more. She is a regular contributor to Quebec French-language news magazine L’actualité and Quebec business magazine Gestion and is a regular translator for theconversation.ca.
