Françoise Lepage

{{Short description|French writer}}

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Françoise Lepage (December 29, 1945 – January 23, 2010) was a Franco-Ontarian educator and writer.

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.

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,{{cite journal |url=http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/jeunesse/v002/2.1.article01.html |title=Françoise Lepage: In Memoriam |journal= Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures|year=2010 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=223–224 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University|doi=10.1353/jeu.0.0002 }} 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.{{cite news |url=http://www.lexpress.to/archives/4750/ |title=Décès de l'écrivaine Françoise Lepage |newspaper=L'Express |location=Toronto |date=February 9, 2010}}{{in lang|fr}} She died in Ottawa at the age of 64 from cancer.{{cite news |url=http://www.expressottawa.ca/Culture/2011-02-02/article-2192355/Des-contes-de-Germain-Lemieux-revus-pour-les-jeunes/1 |title=Des contes de Germain Lemieux revus pour les jeunes |newspaper=L'Express |location=Ottawa |date=February 2, 2011}}