(April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996)

French writer and film director. Born at Gia-Dinh, near Saigon (Vietnam) she returned to France at the age of 17. There, she completed her studies, became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party) and was engaged in the resistance.

She is the author of a great many novels, plays, films, interviews and short narratives, including her best-selling, apparently autobiographical work L’Amant (1984), translated into English as The Lover. This text won the Goncourt prize in 1984. Other major works include the novels Moderato Cantabile and India Song, and her films of the same name, the novel Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein and the film Les Enfants. She was also the screenwriter for Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour.

(From Wikipedia)

Marguerite Duras at Pratilipi

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