André Soubiran

Biography

André Soubiran (29 July 1910 – 29 July 1999) was a French physician and novelist. Soubiran studied medicine in Toulouse and later in Paris, obtaining his doctorate in 1935. At the beginning of World War II, he took part in the Battle of France, an experience he recounted in J'étais médecin avec les chars ("I was a doctor with the tanks") which earned him the Prix Renaudot in 1943. Soubiran's literary series Les hommes en blanc ("The men in white"), initially published from 1947 to 1958, was a …