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Marguerite Duras
French novelist and screenwriter, later a director in her own right; her screenplay for Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959) carried the New Wave into literature and earned an Academy Award nomination.
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- 1914–1996
- 4 April 1914
- Gia Định, French Indochina
- 3 March 1996
- Paris, France
- French
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About Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras was born near Saigon in French Indochina and settled in Paris, where she became one of the major French writers of the postwar decades. Her spare, incantatory prose ran across dozens of novels and plays; the childhood of poverty she drew from would return, late in life, in The Lover (1984), which won the Prix Goncourt and made her internationally famous.
Her screenplay for Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour (1959) placed a writer of the first rank at the source of a New Wave film and earned an Academy Award nomination for its original screenplay. Duras went on to direct her own films, among them India Song (1975), keeping her a figure of both the cinema and the novel — the point where the movement's Left Bank wing meets literature, our home ground.
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Alain Resnais
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Collaborated with · 1958–1959
Resnais asked Duras, then known as a novelist, to write Hiroshima mon amour. The screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award and was published as a book in its own right.
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Collaborated with · 1958–1959
Alain Resnais
Resnais asked Duras, then known as a novelist, to write Hiroshima mon amour. The screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award and was published as a book in its own right.
Buried at · 1996
Montparnasse Cemetery
Buried in division 21 after her death in Paris on 3 March 1996.