Marcel Dubé

Dubé studied at the Collège Sainte-Marie and the Sorbonne, bursting onto the theater scene in 1953 at age twenty-three with Zone, a gripping drama about teenage cigarette smugglers in the back alleys of Montreal that won all major awards at the Dominion Drama Festival.

Dubé wrote over forty plays, television scripts, and radio dramas, including Un simple soldat (1958) and Florence, bringing authentic social realism into millions of Canadian living rooms during the golden age of Radio-Canada television broadcasting.