François Blais ((1973-01-03)January 3, 1973 – (2022-05-14)May 14, 2022) was a Canadian writer from Quebec who received the 2020 Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature for his novel Lac Adélard.

He grew up in a house with a library filled with titles like Tintin, Bob Morane, and books from the Countess of Ségur.

[6] On December 16, 2022, the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services issued a warning about his novel The Boy with Upside-Down Feet, claiming that the book could incite young readers to suicide.

[12] Un livre sur Mélanie Cabay, inspired by the 1994 disappearance and death of a young woman was published in 2018.

[1] His 2012 novel Document 1 was published in English in 2018 by Book*hug in a translation by JC Sutcliffe, under the same title.