Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: May 13, 2004
• Invested on: March 11, 2005

RenÚ-Daniel Dubois is a leading light in our cultural universe. A prominent playwright and stage director, he is also an actor, script writer, teacher, translator and lecturer. Several of his works have been translated and published in various languages, including Never Blame the Bedouins and Being at Home with Claude, which was made into a film. They have also earned him awards and international acclaim. He has written for radio and television and was founding president of the Association quÚbÚcoise des auteurs dramatiques (Quebec playwrights' association). Through his outrageousness and his corrosive humour, this spirited polemicist and free thinker seduces or disturbs us, but never leaves us indifferent.