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Marguerite Duras
AuthorBooks · Second hand1914-1996
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.
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Birth
1914
Death
1996
First book
1950
Years writing
76
Marguerite Duras was born in Gia Định, near Saigon, a setting that deeply influenced her literary imagination.
Her real name was Marguerite Donnadieu, but she adopted the pseudonym Duras after a French village.
She was a multidisciplinary artist who excelled in literature, film directing, and screenwriting.
Her work is renowned for revitalizing the novel and challenging 20th-century theatrical and cinematic conventions.
With a prolific career spanning nearly 500 works, she remains a central figure in contemporary French literature.