name: Marguerite Duras
birth_date: 1914-04-04 00:00:00
death_date: 1996-03-03 00:00:00
genres: Cinema, Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction
influences: Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf
avg_rating: 3.69
ratings_count: 127941
about: Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu , 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.