Frédérick Lavoie is a Canadian writer and journalist from Quebec."Frédérick Lavoie: du danger de la littérature en régime autoritaire". La Presse, February 28, 2018. 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."«Avant l’après» de Frédérick Lavoie primé". Le Quotidien, October 30, 2018.
Lavoie is an independent foreign correspondent whose work has appeared primarily in La Presse and Le Devoir. 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.
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."Correspondance fraternelle". Ici Radio-Canada, September 12, 2018.
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