Françoise Lepage (December 29, 1945 – January 23, 2010) was a

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educator and writer. She was born in

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, came to Canada in 1969 and settled in

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in 1976. She taught children's literature at the

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. 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, 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. Her husband Yvan Lepage died in 2008. She died in Ottawa at the age of 64 from cancer.

Selected works

Source: * ''Poupeska'' (2006), received the

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and was nominated for a

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* ''Soudain l'étrangeté'' (2010) * ''La fileuse de pailles et autres contes'', adapted from stories by Germain Lemieux (2011)

References

1945 births 2010 deaths Deaths from cancer in Ontario Franco-Ontarian people Canadian children's writers in French Canadian women children's writers 21st-century Canadian women writers {{Canada-writer-stub