Apr 04 2009
Marguerite Duras, 20th-C Great French Writer
~Marguerite Duras, French Writer~
Margaret Duras (1914-1996), was a famous and great woman novelist, screenwriter and playwright of France during the late 20th century. She is born today, April 4, in Gia Dinh, Indo-China, now Vietnam.
Duras studied law and political science at the Sorbonne in Paris. During the Second World War, she took part in the Resistance with much risk to herself.
Her novels include her successful The Sea Wall (translated, 1952, Un Barrage contre le Pacifique, 1951), The Vice Consul, 1968, Le Vice-Consul, 1966), Hiroshima, Mon Amour, 1959, among others. Her L’Amant, 1984, (The Lover, 1985) won the Prix Goncourt. Her last book was That’s All, 1995 (C’est tout).
Duras also wrote scripts for films such as Hiroshima, My Love, 1960, from her Hiroshima, Mon Amour, as well as plays, including The Music, 1966 (La Musica, 1965).
