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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 .
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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.
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NOVELIST, PLAYWRIGHT, FILM MAKER, COMMUNIST, outrageous social commentator, Marguerite Duras has awed and maddened the French public for more than 40 years.
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 26, 2023 · The Lover is a fictionalised account of Duras's sexual relationship with a Chinese man in colonial Saigon. The novel explores themes of desire, identity, memory and colonialism with lyrical beauty and emotional force.
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.
