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Mar 3, 1996 · Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Nov 21, 2017 · Name a current literary trend, and the French writer Marguerite Duras almost certainly got to it first — and took it further than anyone working today. The melding of memoir and artifice called...
Nov 10, 2017 · An excerpt from Rachel Kushner’s introduction to “The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities,” by Marguerite Duras, which is out November 14th from Everyman’s Library.
Dec 29, 2022 · Marguerite Duras and the Domestication of Desire. In the celebrated French writer’s newly translated novel “The Easy Life,” keeping house is a defense against the shattering force of sexuality....
Nov 27, 2022 · The first English translation of the French writer Marguerite Duras ’s second novel, “La Vie Tranquille,” published by Gallimard in 1944 but only just here as “The Easy Life,” will transport...
Dec 14, 2022 · Marguerite Duras, left, was a major influence on Annie Ernaux, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, and the generation of women writers who came after them. (Roger Parry/Editions...
Marguerite Duras – History's Women. Author. 1914 – 1996 A.D. by Kathleen McFadden. When Marguerite Donnadieu’s father died when she was 4 years old, her mother decided to stay in Indochina (now Vietnam) with her children.
