Question: What profession does Alice Hoffman and Marguerite Duras have in common?

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La Musica (film): La Musica is a 1967 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras and Paul Séban after Duras' play of the same name () first performed 8 October 1965 at the Studio des Champs-Elysées.

La Voleuse: La Voleuse, meaning 'the thief', is the French title of a 1966 Franco-German film directed by Jean Chapot, with dialogue by Marguerite Duras, that is called Schornstein Nr.  4 in German.

Des journées entières dans les arbres: Des journées entières dans les arbres (in English, Entire Days in the Trees) is a 1976 French film directed by Marguerite Duras, based on her novel.  Prior to directing a film version of the novel, Duras had already modified it into a stageplay that had enjoyed a theatrical run.

This Angry Age: This Angry Age (also known as The Sea Wall, Barrage contre le Pacifique and La diga sul Pacifico) is a 1958 drama film directed by René Clément and produced by Dino De Laurentiis.  It is an adaptation of Marguerite Duras' 1950 novel, "The Sea Wall".  The film stars Anthony Perkins and Silvana Mangano.  The original novel was adapted again in 2008 by Rithy Panh as "The Sea Wall", starring Isabelle Huppert.

Moderato Cantabile: Moderato Cantabile is a novel by Marguerite Duras.  It was very popular, selling half a million copies, and was the initial source of Duras's fame.

La Douleur: La Douleur "(War: A Memoir)" is a controversial, semi-autobiographical work by Marguerite Duras published in 1985 but drawn from diaries that she supposedly wrote during World War II.  It is a collection of six texts recounting a mix of her experiences of the Nazi Occupation of France, with fictional details.  She claims to have "forgotten" ever writing the diary in which she recorded her wartime experiences, but most critics believe that to be a deliberate attempt to confuse autobiography and fiction.  Duras' work is often cited as part of the Nouveau Roman movement which tried to redefine traditional ideas about set categories of books, fiction, non-fiction, biography, autobiography, etc.

Alice Hoffman: Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel "Practical Magic", which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name.  Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.

Duras: Duchamp: Duras: Duchamp is an album of contemporary classical music by American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist John Zorn consisting two tribute compositions for Marguerite Duras and Marcel Duchamp.

Marguerite Duras: Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (] ; 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker.  Her 1959 film "Hiroshima mon amour", earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

India Song: India Song is a 1975 French drama film directed by Marguerite Duras.  "India Song" stars Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Carrière, Claude Mann, Vernon Dobtcheff and Didier Flamand.  The film centres on Anne-Marie (Seyrig), the promiscuous wife of the French ambassador in India, and was based on an unproduced play written by Duras (which itself was based on her published novel "Le Vice-Consul").  Although set in India, the film was shot mostly on location in a mansion in Paris.

Supporting paragraphs: Alice Hoffman Marguerite Duras
Answer: novelist