Angéline Hango (February 2, 1905 – November 9, 1995) was a Canadian writer, who won the

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in 1949 for her sole published book, ''Truthfully Yours''. W. H. New, ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada''.

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, 2002. . p. 75. Born Marie-Rose Angéline Roy in

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,Canada's Early Women Writers (CEWW),

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. she married John Raymond Hango in 1932. She distributed ''Truthfully Yours'' under the pseudonym Angéline Bleuets, winning the Oxford-Crowell Award for unpublished manuscripts."Delightful Autobiography". ''

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'', July 24, 1948. The prize package consisted of $500 and the manuscript's publication by Oxford Press; the book was ultimately published under her real married name in 1948, and won the Stephen Leacock Award the following year. The book was a ''

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'' about her childhood in the Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean region. In a 1970 interview with the ''

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'', Hango stated that she hadn't even considered the book to be funny at all when it won the Leacock Award, though she admitted that she more easily saw the humor in it when rereading it later in life."Optimism helps writers". ''

'', January 21, 1970. After John Hango's death, she remarried to Norris "Cubby" Burke, a former radio operator in the

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. Although she never published another book, Hango had completed a draft manuscript, entitled ''Moroccan Diary'', the story of her travels in Morocco in a camper, at the time of her death from a stroke in 1995.Bourgeois-Doyle, Dick. ''What's So Funny?: Lessons from Canada's Leacock Medal for Humour Writing''. General Store Publishing House, 2015. . p.18.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hango, Angeline 1905 births Canadian women novelists 20th-century Canadian novelists 1995 deaths Writers from Saguenay, Quebec Stephen Leacock Award winners 20th-century Canadian women writers Canadian humorists Canadian women humorists Novelists from Quebec