André Soubiran

André Soubiran 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 which earned him the Prix Renaudot in 1943. Soubiran's literary series Les hommes en blanc, initially published from 1947 to 1958, was a commercial success, with the first two books selling more than 1.5 million copies.