Frédérick Lavoie is a

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writer and journalist from

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."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

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in 2018. Lavoie is an independent foreign correspondent whose work has appeared primarily in '' La Presse'' and ''

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''. His book was written about a trip to

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that he undertook in 2016 after learning that

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's novel ''

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'' 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"

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, September 12, 2018.

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