Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), 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. Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. They both had previous marriages. Marguerite had two brothers: Pierre, the older, and the younger Paul. Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921, when Duras was seven years old. Between 1922 and 1924, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. The family struggled financially, and her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Prey Nob, a story which was fictionalized in Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall). In 1931, when she was 17, Duras and her family moved to France where she successfully passed the first part of the baccalaureate with the choice of Vietnamese as a foreign language, as she spoke it fluently. Duras returned to Saigon in late 1932 where her mother found a teaching post. There, Marguerite continued her education at the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat and completed the second part of the baccalaureate, specializing in philosophy. In autumn 1933, Duras moved to Paris, graduating with a degree in public law in 1936. At the same time, she took classes in mathematics. She continued her education, earning a diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) in public law and, later, in political economy. After finishing her studies in 1937, she found employment with the French government at the Ministry of the Colonies. In 1939, she married the writer Robert Antelme, whom she had met during her studies. During World War II, from 1942 to 1944, Duras worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper quotas to publishers and in the process operated a de facto book-censorship system. She then became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party) and a member of the French Resistance as a part of a small group that also included François Mitterrand, who later became President of France and remained a lifelong friend of hers. Duras' husband, Antelme, was deported to Buchenwald in 1944 for his involvement in the Resistance, and barely survived the experience (weighing on his release, according to Duras, just 38 kg, or 84 pounds). She nursed him back to health, but they divorced once he recovered. In 1943, when publishing her first novel, she began to use the surname Duras, after the town that her father came from, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne. In 1950, her mother returned to France from Indochina, wealthy from property investments and from the boarding school she had run. ... Source: Article "Marguerite Duras" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Nathalie Granger
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The Lorry
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The Marguerite Duras Century
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Marguerite Duras, l'écriture et la vie
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Marguerite Duras - Écrire
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Un metteur en ordre: Robert Bresson
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Cygne I
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Les Mains négatives
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Woman of the Ganges
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
Marguerite Duras: Worn Out with Desire . . . to Write
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Marguerite Duras
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Little Girl Blue
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Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)
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Duras and Cinema
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Duras Shoots
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
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Savannah Bay c’est toi
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One Minute for One Image
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Écrire
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The Death of the Young English Aviator
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Les enfants et Noël
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Marguerite as She Was
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India Song
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The Colour of Words
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L’homme atlantique
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Le Navire Night
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Agatha and the Limitless Readings
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Les vendredis d'Apostrophes
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L'affaire Matzneff
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Duras/Godard
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Hiroshima: The Time of Return
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Dim Dam Dom: Marguerite Duras and Little François
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La Dame des Yvelines
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Baxter, Vera Baxter
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
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Pornotropic
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The Places of Marguerite Duras
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Pop Age
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Delphine and Carole
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Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau
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Marguerite Duras in the Lions' Den
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Marguerite Duras and the Prison Governess
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Marguerite Duras and the '68ers
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Marguerite Duras and Stripper Lolo Pigalle
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Mitterrand, président culturel
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Work and Words
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Mulher a Mulher: Interview with Marguerite Duras by Yann Lemée
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Gaumont-Palace
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Césarée
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Dim Dam Dom
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Spécial cinéma
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Apostrophes
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Half Past Ten
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
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Nathalie Granger
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Nathalie Granger
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The Lover
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Mademoiselle
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Entire Days in the Trees
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Agatha and the Limitless Readings
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The Lorry
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Baxter, Vera Baxter
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Destroy, She Said
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
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Woman of the Ganges
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The Afternoon of Mr. Andesmas
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La bête dans la jungle
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India Song
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The Children
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Azuro
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The Long Absence
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Les Mains négatives
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Les Mains négatives
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Césarée
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Le Navire Night
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Roman Dialogue
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La Musica
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Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)
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Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne)
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Dark Night, Calcutta
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The Sea Wall
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Seven Days… Seven Nights
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India Song
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La Musica
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La Musica
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Destroy, She Said
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L’homme atlantique
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L’homme atlantique
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The Malady of Death
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The Malady of Death
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Jaune, Le Soleil
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Jaune, Le Soleil
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Sans merveille
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Music
(Theatre Play)
The Moment of Peace
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Seven Days… Seven Nights
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Baxter, Vera Baxter
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Woman of the Ganges
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
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The Lorry
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Agatha and the Limitless Readings
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Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne)
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Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver)
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The Children
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Césarée
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Roman Dialogue
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This Angry Age
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The Square
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En rachâchant
(Short Story)
A Stormy Summer Night
(Novel)
Writing
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Cygne I
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Memoir of War
(Novel)
Le Navire Night
(Screenplay)
The Sailor from Gibraltar
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Suzanna Andler
(Theatre Play)
Entire Days in the Trees
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Entire Days in the Trees
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10:30 P.M. Summer
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10:30 P.M. Summer
(Novel)
Drifters of a shadowy dream
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La Voleuse
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Savannah Bay
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Agatha
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Per un viaggio in Italia
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