Douglas Valentine LePan OC FRSC (25 May 1914 – 27 November 1998) was a Canadian diplomat, poet, novelist and professor of literature.
LePan is one of only a few people (Michael Ondaatje and George Bowering are two others) to have won the Governor General's Award both for poetry (1953 for The Net and the Sword) and fiction (1964 for The Deserter, in a highly controversial win over Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel).
LePan had married, in 1948 to the former Sarah Katharine Chambers;[1] the two remained together until 1971, but the marriage was a difficult one, not least of all over issues relating to sexual orientation.
The couple had two children; Nicholas Le Pan, the elder of the two, was for many years a senior civil servant in Canada's Department of Finance and served from 2001 to 2006 as Superintendent of Financial Institutions, while the younger, Don LePan, is founder and CEO of academic publishing house Broadview Press and the author of several novels.
LePan's 1989 book of memoirs Bright Glass of Memory recounts his involvement with several leading lights of the twentieth century, including John Maynard Keynes and T.S.