Françoise 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]