Françoise Lepage | |
Birth Date: | 29 December 1945 |
Birth Place: | Saint-Amand-Montrond, France |
Death Place: | Ottawa, Canada |
Spouse: | Yvan Lepage |
Françoise Lepage (December 29, 1945 - January 23, 2010) was a Franco-Ontarian educator and writer.
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.
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,[1] and then Dictionnaire des auteurs et des illustrateurs. She also published Paule Daveluy ou la passion des mots.
Lepage wrote a number of children's books and had also begun to write some adult fiction.[1]
Her husband Yvan Lepage died in 2008.[2] She died in Ottawa at the age of 64 from cancer.[3]
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