Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras, born April 4, 1914, in Gia Dinh, Cochinchina, Vietnam, is the novelist, screenwriter, scenarist, playwright, and film director, internationally known for her screenplays of Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and India Song (1975). The novel L’Amant (1984; The Lover; film, 1992) won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1984. Duras spent most of her childhood…