Marcel Dubé

Marcel Dubé, OC (born January 3, 1930 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian playwright. He has produced over 300 works for radio, television and the stage. His concerns for the preservation and sanctity of the French language in Quebec was a primary focus of his career.

Life

He studied at Collège Sainte-Marie where he got his taste for theatre frequenting the school's auditorium, the historic Salle du Gésu.

He then attended and the plays he wrote there were so successful that he was soon able to write for a living. He founded the group Jeune Scène which at the Dominion Drama Festival in 1953 won several awards with his own play, De l'autre côté du mur which later became Zone.

Over the next five years Radio-Canada presented, on radio and television, over 30 of his works (many of which he later adapted to the stage). He has produced over 300 works for radio, television and the stage.

His concerns for the preservation and sanctity of the French language in Quebec and around the world drove him into many other organizations. He was first secretary, then president, of the Conseil de la langue française, president of the Rencontres francophones du Québec and cofounder and director of the Sécretariat permanent des peuples francophones.

In February 2001, he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada.[1]

Works

Awards and prizes

References

  1. Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
  2. "Marcel Dubé biography". Governor General's Performing Arts Awards Foundation. Retrieved 6 February 2015.

External links

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