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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 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.
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Feb 26, 2018 · Learn about the life, oeuvre and style of Marguerite Duras, a French writer, filmmaker and dramatist who explored love, desire, suffering and death in her works. Discover how she challenged the boundaries between private and public, symbolic and imaginary, and narrative and event.
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Nov 10, 2017 · Marguerite wasn’t always Duras. She was born Donnadieu, but with the publication of her first novel, “Les Impudents,” in 1943, she went from Donnadieu to Duras and stayed that way.
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- The Lover by Marguerite Duras, Maxine Hong Kingston (Introduction), Barbara Bray (Translator)
- Hiroshima mon amour by Marguerite Duras, Caridad Martínez (Translator)
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- The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras, Richard Seaver (Translator), Diệp Anh (Translator)
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.
Jun 11, 2018 · Learn about the life and career of Marguerite Duras, a French writer and filmmaker who won the Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel The Lover. Explore her works in biographical and historical context, from her childhood in Indochina to her involvement in the French Resistance and communism.
