{"id":2703,"date":"2019-06-21T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T19:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2019-06-21T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T19:15:02","slug":"featured-alumnus-jean-charbonneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2019\/06\/21\/featured-alumnus-jean-charbonneau\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured alumnus: Jean Charbonneau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2019\/06\/21\/featured-alumnus-jean-charbonneau\/597-auteur_auteur_default\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2715\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2019\/06\/597-auteur_auteur_default-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"597-auteur_auteur_default\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/06\/597-auteur_auteur_default-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/06\/597-auteur_auteur_default.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, we&#8217;re excited to feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quebec-amerique.com\/auteurs\/jean-charbonneau-597\">Jean Charbonneau<\/a>, an alumnus of our program from 1998!\u00a0 Jean was born in Montreal, and studied creative writing at Harvard Extension School and the University of Southern Mississippi before getting his MA in creative writing from BU. He freelanced as a book critic for a few years,\u00a0and wrote for <em>AGNI<\/em>, the <em>Boston Book Review <\/em>(now defunct), the <em>Detroit Free Press<\/em>, the <em>Denver Post<\/em>, and other newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Jean is\u00a0currently working on a novel set in Baltimore, where he worked as a librarian in hospitals and in the Maryland state prison system.\u00a0 He lived in the US (Boston, Hattiesburg, Detroit, and Baltimore) for nearly twenty years before returning to Montr\u00e9al in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>While Jean has published stories in both French and English, all of his novels were written in his native language, French.\u00a0 Qu\u00e9bec Am\u00e9rique, a Canadian publishing house, published all three of them.\u00a0 Jean says that his first book, a literary novel called\u00a0<em>Comme un intrus,<\/em>\u00a0began as a story that he wrote while here at BU. Jean&#8217;s second novel,\u00a0<em>Tout homme r\u00eave d\u2019\u00eatre un gangster,\u00a0<\/em>is noir,\u00a0and his third novel,\u00a0<em>Camus doit mourir,\u00a0<\/em>is an imaginative\u00a0tale set in the last days of the Nazi occupation of Paris, about an assassination attempt on Albert Camus by a right-wing extremist who is\u00a0obsessed with Louis-Ferdinand C\u00e9line.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to you, Jean!\u00a0 We&#8217;re so happy the program was helpful to you, and we look forward to reading your next novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#8217;re excited to feature Jean Charbonneau, an alumnus of our program from 1998!\u00a0 Jean was born in Montreal, and studied creative writing at Harvard Extension School and the University of Southern Mississippi before getting his MA in creative writing from BU. He freelanced as a book critic for a few years,\u00a0and wrote for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,4165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}