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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.
Marguerite Duras (/dy.ʁas/) — nom de plume de Marguerite Donnadieu — est une autrice, 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.
Aug 1, 2023 · The novelistic memoir The Lover by Marguerite Duras (1914–96) is a modernist story of sexual coming of age in French colonial Vietnam. It is also a portrait of the young author.
Feb 26, 2018 · Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) is one of France’s most important and interesting intellectual figures. She excelled at being a writer, filmmaker and dramatist. After the Second World War she also worked for a number of years as a journalist for France-Observateur.
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.
Jul 11, 2022 · Marguerite Duras (April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996), born Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, was a French novelist, screenwriter, playwright, filmmaker, and essayist.
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.
Jun 11, 2018 · Marguerite Duras. BORN: 1914, Saigon, French Indochina. DIED: 1996, Paris, France. NATIONALITY: French. GENRE: Fiction, drama. MAJOR WORKS: The Sea Wall (1950) The Sailor from Gibraltar (1952) The Ravishing of Lol Stein (1964) The Lover (1984) The North China Lover (1991) Overview.
Dec 15, 2000 · Now available in English, Marguerite Duras confronts the truths and falsehoods in the life of the enigmatic author. Adler, through her exploration of the events central to Duras's career,...