![]() The family struggled financially, and her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Prey Nob, a story which was fictionalized in Un barrage contre le Pacifique ( The Sea Wall). They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. Between 19, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. Marguerite had two older brothers: Pierre, the elder, and Paul.ĭuras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921. Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.ĭuras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu ( French pronunciation: , 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras ( French: ), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. ![]()
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