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Jun 11, 2018 · Overview. One of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras won international acclaim after she was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel The Lover. Although Duras had been writing fiction and directing films for over forty years,
Mar 4, 1996 · Marguerite Duras, author of the best-selling novel "The Lover" and one of the most widely read French writers of the postwar era, died today at her home in Paris. She was 81.
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. Combine Editions. Marguerite Duras’s books.
Nov 10, 2017 · Rachel Cusk Reads Marguerite Duras The author joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss the stories “The Bible” and “The Stolen Pigeons,” which were published in The New Yorker in 2006 ...
French author and filmmaker born and raised in French Indochina whose work crosses traditional boundaries of fiction and autobiography, blurring the lines between self and other, reality and imagination, absence and desire. Name variations: Marguerite Donnadieu. Pronunciation: du-RAS.
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 21, 2017 · By Parul Sehgal. Nov. 21, 2017. Share full article. Alessandra Montalto/The New York Times. Name a current literary trend, and the French writer Marguerite Duras almost certainly got to it...
