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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.
Marguerite Duras ( /dy.ʁas/) — nom de plume de Marguerite Donnadieu — est une auteure, dramaturge, scénariste et réalisatrice française, née le 4 avril 1914 à Gia Định 1 près de Saïgon, alors en Indochine française, et morte le 3 mars 1996 à Paris .
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. Duras spent most.
Oct 20, 1991 · NOVELIST, PLAYWRIGHT, FILM MAKER, COMMUNIST, outrageous social commentator, Marguerite Duras has awed and maddened the French public for more than 40 years.
Mar 26, 2023 · Marguerite Duras, one of the most iconic French writers of the 20th century, didn’t think much of her most commercially successful novel The Lover (1984), a fictionalised account of an affair...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Oct 15, 2021 · Born in 1914 in French Indochina, Marguerite Duras was one of France’s most important twentieth-century literary figures. She wrote the screenplay for the French film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais, and her novel The Lover won the Prix Goncourt in 1984 and was also made into a widely acclaimed film.
