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 began 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[2]
- Poupeska (2006), received the Trillium Book Award and was nominated for a Governor General's Award
- Soudain l'étrangeté (2010)
- La fileuse de pailles et autres contes, adapted from stories by Germain Lemieux (2011)[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Décès de l’écrivaine Françoise Lepage". L'Express (Toronto). February 9, 2010.(French)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Françoise Lepage: In Memoriam". Project Muse. Johns Hopkins University.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Des contes de Germain Lemieux revus pour les jeunes". L'Express (Ottawa). February 2, 2011.