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Marguerite Duras
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.
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Born 4 April 1914 · Died 3 March 1996 · Q153248
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1996· 2 entries
Died 1996-03-03.
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“Si l’on n’est pas passé par l’obligation absolue d’obéir au désir du corps, c’est-à-dire si l’on n’est pas passé par la passion, on ne peut rien faire dans la vie”
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1989).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Goncourt for The Lover (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Awarded Grand prix du théâtre (1983).
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1980· 1 entry
Was hospitalized for the first time due to a combination of alcohol and tranquilizers
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1971· 1 entry
Duras signed the Manifesto of the 343, thereby publicly announcing that she had had an abortion
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1950· 1 entry
Her mother returned to France from Indochina, wealthy from property investments and from the boarding school she had run
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1944· 1 entry
For his involvement in the Resistance, and barely survived the experience (weighing on his release, according to Duras, just 38 kg, or 84 pounds)
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1943· 1 entry
When publishing her first novel, she began to use the surname Duras, after the town that her father came from, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne
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1939· 1 entry
Married the writer Robert Antelme, whom she had met during her studies
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1937· 1 entry
Found employment with the French government at the Ministry of the Colonies
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1931· 1 entry
When she was 17, Duras and her family moved to France where she successfully passed the first part of the baccalaureate with the choice of Vietnamese as a foreign language, as she spoke it fluently
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1921· 1 entry
When Duras was seven years old
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1914· 1 entry
Born 1914-04-04.
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