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  1. Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu ( French pronunciation: [maʁɡ (ə)ʁit ʒɛʁmɛn maʁi dɔnadjø], 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras ( French: [maʁɡ (ə)ʁit dyʁas] ), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned ...

  2. Mar 31, 2024 · Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, screenwriter, scenarist, playwright, and film director, internationally known for her screenplays of Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and India Song (1975). The novel L’Amant (1984; The Lover; film, 1992) won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1984.

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  3. MARGUERITE DURAS WAS born in Giadinh, near Saigon, in 1914. Her father, Henri Donnadieu, was a professor of mathematics at a school in what was then French Indochina. He died in 1918, leaving ...

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    • March 3, 1996
    • April 4, 1914
    • The Lover by Marguerite Duras, Maxine Hong Kingston (Introduction), Barbara Bray (Translator)
    • Hiroshima mon amour by Marguerite Duras, Caridad Martínez (Translator)
    • Moderato cantabile.
    • The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras, Richard Seaver (Translator), Diệp Anh (Translator)
  4. Nov 10, 2017 · Marguerite wasn’t always Duras. She was born Donnadieu, but with the publication of her first novel, “Les Impudents,” in 1943, she went from Donnadieu to Duras and stayed that way.

  5. Jun 11, 2018 · Learn about the life and career of Marguerite Duras, a French writer and filmmaker who won the Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel The Lover. Explore her works in biographical and historical context, from her childhood in Indochina to her involvement in the French Resistance and communism.

  6. Dec 29, 2022 · The setting is a fictionalized area in southwest France, likely near the village of Duras, where her father was born and from which Marguerite later derived her pen name. It was also where her ...

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