Name Julie Barlow | Role Journalist | |
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Books The Story of Spanish, The Story of French, Plus Ca Change: The Story, Living with Arthritis, The Bonjour Effect: Th | ||
Julie barlow does a quick summary of the origins of the french language
Julie Barlow (March 1968 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist, author and conference speaker who writes and publishes both in English and French and is based in Montreal.
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- Julie barlow does a quick summary of the origins of the french language
- Biography
- Awards
- Published works
- References
As an author, she has written four books on language and culture, among which are Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong and The Bonjour Effect.
Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, as a journalist, she has written features for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers including USA Today, L’actualité, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor.
Biography
Julie Barlow received a bachelor's degree from McGill University where she majored in political science. She received a master's degree in English literature from Concordia University.
After living in Paris, France from 1999 to 2001, she co-wrote Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong (St. Martin's Press, 2003) with her husband Jean-Benoît Nadeau, a book about France and French culture. The book was translated into French, Dutch and Mandarin.
In 2006, Barlow co-wrote The Story of French with Nadeau, a biography of the origins of the French language.
This book was translated into French and Japanese. In 2014, it was adapted into a two-hour radio documentary, Le français n’a pas dit son dernier mot (French has not said its last word), which was broadcast by France Culture in July 2014, and still available in podcast.
Barlow was a visiting Fulbright scholar at the North American Center for Transborder Studies in Phoenix, Arizona, in spring 2010 where her studies focused on relations between Mexico and the United States and the role of Spanish in the U.S. This was part of the research for her new book, a history of the Spanish language titled The Story of Spanish (St. Martin's Press), also co-authored with Nadeau.
She currently sits on the board of trustees of the Washington-based Institute of Current World Affairs.