Françoise Lepage Explained

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]

Selected works

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Notes and References

  1. Françoise Lepage: In Memoriam . Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. 2010 . 2 . 1 . 223–224 . Johns Hopkins University. 10.1353/jeu.0.0002 .
  2. News: Décès de l'écrivaine Françoise Lepage . L'Express . Toronto . February 9, 2010.
  3. News: Des contes de Germain Lemieux revus pour les jeunes . L'Express . Ottawa . February 2, 2011.