Françoise Lepage

Françoise Lepage
Born(1945-12-29)December 29, 1945
Saint-Amand-Montrond, France
DiedJanuary 23, 2010(2010-01-23) (aged 64)
Ottawa, Canada
SpouseYvan 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

Source:[2]

References

  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.
  3. ^ a b "Des contes de Germain Lemieux revus pour les jeunes". L'Express. Ottawa. February 2, 2011.


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