Marguerite Donnadieu (1914-04-04)4 April 1914 Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (present-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Died
3 March 1996(1996-03-03) (aged 81) Paris, France
Occupation
Novelist
playwright
filmmaker
Nationality
French
Education
Lycée Chasseloup Laubat, Saigon
Alma mater
University of Paris
Period
1943–1995
Spouses
Robert Antelme
Dionys Mascolo
Yann Andréa
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (French pronunciation:[maʁɡ(ə)ʁitʒɛʁmɛnmaʁidɔnadjø], 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (French:[maʁɡ(ə)ʁitdyʁas]), 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.
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (French pronunciation: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit ʒɛʁmɛn maʁi dɔnadjø], 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as MargueriteDuras (French:...
directed by French director Alain Resnais and written by French author MargueriteDuras. Resnais' first feature-length work, it was a co-production between...
India Song is a 1975 French drama film written and directed by MargueriteDuras. It stars Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann...
(French: Le camion) or The Truck is a 1977 French drama film directed by MargueriteDuras. Le camion was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. After the...
Béraud - short film 1974: La Femme du Gange by MargueriteDuras 1975: India Song by MargueriteDuras 1975: Souvenirs d'en France by André Téchiné 1976:...
Marienbad, and later acted in films by Chantal Akerman, Luis Buñuel, MargueriteDuras, Ulrike Ottinger, Francois Truffaut, and Fred Zinneman. She directed...
Resistance and deported. In 1939 he married MargueriteDuras. Their child died at birth in 1942. In the same year, Duras met Dionys Mascolo, who became her lover...
writers such as William Faulkner and the cinema. Both Robbe-Grillet and MargueriteDuras, whose 1958 novel Moderato cantabile was in the style of the Nouveau...
fighter, left-wing political activist, author, and former husband of MargueriteDuras. Born into a family of Italian immigrants, Mascolo worked at several...
La Douleur (War: A Memoir) is a collection of six texts by MargueriteDuras published in 1985. Two texts are invented: L'ortie brisée: 184 and Aurélia...
the 2008 Prix François-Mauriac de la région Aquitaine [fr], the 2008 MargueriteDuras Prize, the 2008 Prix de la langue française, the 2009 Télégramme Readers...
Cantabile is a novel by MargueriteDuras. It was very popular, selling half a million copies, and was the initial source of Duras' fame. The plot is initially...
writer, actor and director. MargueriteDuras' grave is recognizable due to a pot and saucer full of planted pens. Duras moved to Indochina as a child...
Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein is a novel written by MargueriteDuras and published in France by Gallimard in 1964. The text was translated by Richard...
that écriture féminine is not limited to "woman". She names Colette, MargueriteDuras, and Jean Genet as "the only inscriptions of femininity that [she has]...
Lyotard. Notably, the signatories did not include Michel Foucault,: 16 MargueriteDuras, Hélène Cixous, or Xavière Gauthier, who all refused to sign the January...
and the Nomads (Juraj Jakubisko, Czechoslovakia) Destroy, She Said (MargueriteDuras, France) Duet For Cannibals (Susan Sontag, Sweden) The Epic That Never...
Jean Cocteau, Jean Genet, Henry Miller, and MargueriteDuras (an interview with Moreau is included in Duras's book Outside: Selected Writings). She formerly...
Manganelli (1986) Milan Kundera (1987) Andrzej Szczypiorski (1988) MargueriteDuras (1989) Helmut Heissenbüttel (1990) Péter Nádas (1991) Salman Rushdie...
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