What is Marguerite Duras?
[[File:Marguerite Duras 1993.jpg|thumb|200px]] '''Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu''' ({{IPA-fr|maʁɡ(ə)ʁit ʒɛʁmɛn maʁi dɔnadjø}}, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as '''Marguerite Duras''' ({{IPA-fr|maʁɡ(ə)ʁit dyʁas|lang}}), was a [[France|French]] writer and [[movie director]]. She first used the [[surname]] ''Duras'' on her 1943 [[novel]] ''Les Impudents''. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-man-and-a-woman-say-what-you-like-theyre-different-on-marguerite-duras|title=“A Man and a Woman, Say What You Like, They’re Different”: On Marguerite Duras|last=Kushner|first=Rachel|website=The New Yorker|language=en|access-date=2020-04-24}}</ref>She wrote ''The Lover'', which was later made into a 1992 movie. Duras was born in [[Saigon]], Vietnam. She died in [[Paris]] from [[throat cancer]], age 81. ==References== {{reflist}} == Other websites == *{{imdb|0243921}} {{Prix Goncourt|state=autocollapse}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Duras, Marguerite}} [[Category:French writers]] [[Category:French movie directors]] [[Category:1914 births]] [[Category:1996 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century writers]] {{bio-stub}}