Julie Winn

Paris, France

20 Years Experience

Professional Experience

American/Irish writer, longterm expat in Paris, excellent French & German, perfectly at home in French language, literature, history, politics, French popular culture, familiar with all of western Europe. Write on travel, social, political and literary life, with a human interest perspective. Popular blog (1 million + pageviews) since 2004. Translator for a news website, translating articles from major foreign newspapers: Le Monde, Les Echos, La Stampa, Die Zeit, etc. Interested in politics, science, literature, history, travel. Yale BA Chinese Studies, Sorbonne translation (French & German to English) MA in 2013. Have lived in London, Munich, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Ireland. Good Italian and Spanish. Will travel. Wrote chapters in various books: on education in France; French names; Paris travel; global population from a political perspective, etc.

Expertise

Copy Editor 2 YearsResearcher 2 YearsWriter 20 Years

Specialty

Family, Children & Teenagers 24 YearsBooks & Literature Entry LevelInternational Entry Level

Industries

Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines 2 YearsOnline/new media 10 YearsNonprofit 15 Years

Awards

All four of my kids are friends with me on Facebook. Blogs: more than 1 million pageviews.

Associations

Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators

Other Work History

Newsletter editor, Paris, 5 years; Saturday Review magazine, copy editor; Cousteau Society, wrote 25% of 800-p "Environmental Almanac"; freelance copy editor for major NYC publishers, inc. Knopf, Macmillan and McGraw-Hill; Foreign Policy Association, asst. editor and writer for "Great Decisions"; translator, blogger, editor, copy editor.

Technical Skills

Photo editing, basic website building, site design, analytics, SEO

Foreign Language Skills

French, German, Italian, Spanish. Also mid-level Chinese

Unions

Former member of Newspaper Guild.

Computer Skills

Up to date: Photoshop, Word, XML, Mac and PC, etc. Blogs since 2004. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc.

Equipment

digital cameras, audio recorder

Work Permits & Visas

Legal resident, can work legally in USA, European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth

References

Available on request.

Translations

German birthrate: only the Vatican has fewer children per capita

(unpublished 3/16/2006)

TRANSLATION from German, article on declining German birthrate

Good Luck, Bad Luck

(unpublished--copyright 4/29/2005)

TRANSLATION from German, poem by Heinrich Heine

A father crazy with grief for his child

(unpublished-- copyright 1/20/2005)

TRANSLATION from French, excerpt, from poem "At Villequier," by Victor Hugo, lament for his beloved daughter, drowned at 19.

How England Gave the H-Bomb to France

(11/24/2006)

Translation from the Histoire secrète de la Ve République (pub. Nov 2006)

Jacques Chirac's Love Life

(12/11/2006)

Translation from Histoire secrète de la Ve République (November 2006)

A to Z guide to the Oktoberfest

(9/25/2006)

The Munich Abendzeitung's A to Z guide to the Oktoberfest

The real Papillon

(12/17/2005)

Translation of article in the Parisien on the man claiming to be the real Papillon [as in the Steve McQueen movie].

Photos

Ice bar in Lumilinna Snow Castle, Kemi, Finland

(2/1/2006)

Lumilinna, in Kemi near the Arctic Circle, has the largest ice building in the world. It takes three months to build.

(6/9/2026)

Rocks near Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico

Here rests a comrade in arms known but to God; Omaha Beach American cemetery

(6/6/2004)

Tower house, Dinan, Brittany

(7/1/2004)

The walled town of Dinan, one of the best-preserved in France, has a "Ramparts Fair" in July of even-numbered years, when the entire town dresses in medieval clothes for three days.

Saalfurt, Germany, reconstructed Roman fort

(6/9/2026)

Christmas Market, Frankfurt, Germany

(6/9/2026)

Boinice Castle, Slovakia, hosts a ghost festival every year

(6/9/2026)