Frédérick Lavoie Explained

Frédérick Lavoie is a Canadian writer and journalist from Quebec.[1] He is most noted for his book Avant l’après : voyages à Cuba avec George Orwell, which won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction in 2018.[2]

Lavoie is an independent foreign correspondent whose work has appeared primarily in La Presse and Le Devoir.[1] His book was written about a trip to Cuba that he undertook in 2016 after learning that George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four had been published there for the first time.[1]

In 2018, Lavoie and his brother Jasmin published Frères amis, frères ennemis, a collection of their correspondence over a year when Frédérick was working in India while Jasmin, also a journalist, was working in Pakistan.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/livres/entrevues/201802/28/01-5155596-frederick-lavoie-du-danger-de-la-litterature-en-regime-autoritaire.php "Frédérick Lavoie: du danger de la littérature en régime autoritaire"
  2. https://www.lequotidien.com/arts/avant-lapres-de-frederick-lavoie-prime-d78aff9c559feb64facf944578134a6d "«Avant l’après» de Frédérick Lavoie primé"
  3. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1123293/correspondance-fraternelle-freres-amis-ennemis-jasmin-frederick-lavoie "Correspondance fraternelle"