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François Blais (born (1973-01-03)January 3, 1973) is a Canadian writer from Quebec who received the 2020 Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature for his novel Lac Adélard.

François Blais was born in 1973 in the small town of Grand-Mère in the Mauricie region of Quebec He grew up in a house with a library filled with titles like Tintin, Bob Morane, and books from the Countess of Ségur.

Blais published his first novel, Iphigénie en Haute-Ville at the age of 32 in 2006, which quickly became a finalist for several literary prizes, namely the Prix des libraires du Québec, the Prix France-Québec and the Prix Senghor de la création littéraire. Although he had until then worked primarily as a translator, Blais now publishes a book almost every year, and beginning in 2016, has alternated between adult and children's books all while being employed as a maintenance worker for a shopping centre in Trois-Rivières.