Birthday: April 4, 1914
Sign: Aries Birthday Code
Sex: Female
Blood Type: Unknown
Region: Vietnam
Province of Birth: Unknown
City of Birth: Ho Chi Minh City
Identity: Author
Marguerite Duras Biography
Marguerite Duras (April 4, 1914]]-March 3, 1996) was one of France's most celebrated contemporary female novelists, playwrights and film artists. She was born on April 4, 1914, in Gia Dinh, Vietnam, to parents who were both elementary school teachers.Born in 1914 in Chu Dang locality, a northern suburb of the city of Saigon, during the era of French rule in Vietnam, she returned to her native France for the first time at the age of 18 years. He studied law, mathematics, and political science at university in Paris. But he aspired to be a novelist. 1942 saw the publication of his debut novel The Cheeky People, followed by Quiet Life, The Pacific Ripple, The Sailor of Gilbudar and other novels. When the Nouvelle Vague craze started in France, the French literary world also gave rise to the New Novel movement. He is also known as one of the representative writers of the New Novel for his novel The Graduation of the Commander Dilatganda, published in 1958, which was awarded a literary prize. In 1959 the famous director Yalan Lerner asked her to write the screenplay for his first feature film, Hiroshima Mon Amour. The movie was a big hit in France, setting a high box office record and spreading her name all over the world. Another film she wrote won awards, and her fame grew as her novels were transformed into movies, and in 1966 she began her career as a director. Duras began her literary career with the novel The Brazen Ones (1943). Her works are not only rich in content and diverse in genre, but are also particularly genre-oriented, with an original and unique style. Her early novel The Pacific Embankment (1950) fully reflects the poverty of her childhood, and many other works are also based on the social reality of Indochina. Her novels, such as The Sailor in the Strait of Gibraltar (1952), are full of camera-like images and colloquial dialogues, and therefore have mostly been adapted into films; her later novels, such as The Pony of Tarquinia (1953), The Sound of the Harp (1958), and The Ecstasy of Lore V. Stein (1964), are good at breaking the traditional mode of narration and blending fiction with reality, and thus she was once regarded as a member of the New School of Writers. Duras was once regarded as a writer of the New Novel school. In fact, her novels are only similar to the New Novel in terms of approach, emphasizing the poetic and musical nature of the genre, but they are quite different in terms of conception, as she depicts the confrontation between the rich and the poor and the desires of human beings in her works, which are exposing the social realities in a unique way. Duras was equally accomplished in theater and film, publishing three collections of plays in 1965, 1968, and 1984, and winning the Grand Prix de la Drama of the Académie fran?aise in 1983. As a member of the Left Bank School, an important French film school, she not only wrote such outstanding screenplays as Hiroshima Mon Amour (1960) and The Long Goodbye (1961), but also took on the role of director herself from 1965 onwards, and from the creation of the excellent film Song of India (1974) onwards, one or two films came out every year, and a number of them won international awards. More than sixty of Duras's works have always had a wide readership and audience, most notably Duras's novel The Lover (1984), published when he was seventy years old. In this very popular and exotic work, she recalls with astonishing candor her first love with a Chinese lover in Indochina at the age of sixteen, which won the Prix Goncourt that year, and has been translated into more than 40 different languages, with more than 2.5 million copies sold to date, making her the most prestigious French-language author in the world today.
Sunday, March 3, 1996 The beloved contemporary French author Marguerite Duras completed her 81-year journey. The last work of her life has a prophetic name - This Is All There Is.
Representative Works
1943: The Brazen One (novel)
1944: A Quiet Life (novel)
1950: The Pacific Causeway (novel)
1952: The Sailor in the Strait of Gibraltar (novel)
1953: The Pony of Tarquinia (novel)
1954: Days and Nights in the Woods (novel) with: Python, Mrs. Dodan, The Site (novel)
1955: The Square (novel)
1958: The Songlike Middle Plate (novel, in Chinese translation titled The Sound of the Piano)
1959: The Dry Bridge of Seine-et-Vaise ( screenplay)
1960: "Ten and a Half Summer Nights" (novel) "Love in Hiroshima" (screenplay)
1961: "The Long Farewell" (screenplay, with Chandra Yarrow)
1962: "Afternoon of Mr. Aundesma" (novel)
1964: "The Ecstasy of Lore-Wa-Steyn" (novel)
1965: Drama I: The River and the Forest, The Square, The Musical Comedy; The Vice-Consul (novel)
1966: The Music (screenplay)
1967: The English Lover (novel)
1958: The English Lover (screenplay)
Drama II: Suzanne André, The Days and Nights in the Woods," "Yes, Maybe So," "The Saga Language," and "A Man Came to See Me.
1969: She Speaks of Destruction (novel) She Speaks of Destruction (movie)
1970: Abarn, Sabana, David (novel)
1971: Love (novel) Yellow, Sun (movie)
1972: Natalie Granger (movie)
1973: The Song of India (screenplay) The Woman of the Ganges (movie) Natalie Grange with: The Woman of the Ganges (screenplay)
1974: The Woman Who Speaks (conversation with Zavier Gauthier)
1975: Song of India (movie)
1976: Bakstel, Vera Bakstel ( movie) Her Name in Venice When She Was in Deserted Calcutta (movie)
1976: Days and Nights in the Woods (movie)
1977: The Truck (movie) The Truck, with: Conversations with Michel Porte (screenplay)
Locations in the Pens of Marguerite Doula (collaborative conversation written with Michel Porte) (written as a conversation) Eden of the Movies (screenplay)
1978: The Night Boat (film)
1979: The Night Boat, with: City of Caesars, The Reverse Hands, Aurelia Styne (screenplay)
City of Caesars (film)
The Reverse Hands (film)
The Aurelia Styne, Aurelia Melbourne Says (film)
"Aurelia Styne, Aurelia And Wonkwe Says" (film)
1980: "Vera Baxter or the Atlantic Riviera" (novel) "The Man Who Sits on the Porch" (novel) "The Summer of '80" (essay) "Green Eyes" (screenplay)
1981: "Agata" (novel) "Agata and the Endless Reading" (film) "The Outside World" (essay) "Young Girls and Boys" (audiotape, adapted by Jan André from Summer of '80, read by Marguerite Durra) "The Atlantic Man" (film)
1982: "Dialogues in Rome" (film)
1982: "The Atlantic Man (novel) Savannah Bay (play) The Disease of Death (novel)
1984: Drama III: The Beast of the Jungle Trap, The Papers of Asbeth, The Dance of Death; The Lover (novel)
1985: The Agony (novel) The Musical Sequel (play) Chekhov's Gulls (essay) The Children (film. with Jean Mascolo and Jean-Marc Tirina)
1986: Blue Eyes, Black Hair (novel) Prostitutes of the Normandy Sea (novel)
1987: Emilie L. (novel)
1987: Material Life (essay)
1990: Summer Rain (novel)
1992: "Lover from Northern China" (novel) "Lover from Northern China" (screenplay)