Françoise Lepage

French writer

Françoise Lepage

Born| (1945-12-29)December 29, 1945
Saint-Amand-Montrond, France
Died| January 23, 2010(2010-01-23) (aged 64)
Ottawa, Canada
Spouse| Yvan Lepage

Françoise Lepage (December 29, 1945 - January 23, 2010) was a Franco-Ontarian educator and writer.[1]

She was born in Saint-Amand-Montrond, France, came to Canada in 1969 and settled in Ottawa in 1976. She taught children's literature at the University of Ottawa. Lepage had also worked as a librarian and as a translator.[1]

She published Histoire de la littérature pour la jeunesse in 2000, which won the Prix Gabrielle Roy, the Prix Champlain and the Prix du livre de la Ville d'Ottawa,[2] and then Dictionnaire des auteurs et des illustrateurs. She also published Paule Daveluy ou la passion des mots.[1]

Lepage wrote a number of children's books and had also begun to write some adult fiction.[2]

Her husband Yvan Lepage died in 2008.[1] She died in Ottawa at the age of 64 from cancer.[3]

## Selected works

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Source:[2]

* Poupeska (2006), received the Trillium Book Award and was nominated for a Governor General's Award
* Soudain l'étrangeté (2010)
* La fileuse de pailles et autres contes, adapted from stories by Germain Lemieux (2011)[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d "Décès de l'écrivaine Françoise Lepage". L'Express. Toronto. February 9, 2010.(in French)
2. ^ a b c "Françoise Lepage: In Memoriam". Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. 2 (1). Johns Hopkins University: 223–224\. 2010. doi:10.1353/jeu.0.0002.223-224&rft.date=2010&rft_id=info:doi/10.1353/jeu.0.0002&rft_id=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type;=summary&url;=/journals/jeunesse/v002/2.1.article01.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Françoise+Lepage" class="Z3988">
3. ^ a b "Des contes de Germain Lemieux revus pour les jeunes". L'Express. Ottawa. February 2, 2011.

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