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Mar 31, 2020 marguerite duras, french novelist, screenwriter, scenarist, playwright, and film director, internationally known for her screenplays of hiroshima mon amour 1959 and india song 1975. Duras was the author of many novels, plays, films, interviews, essays, and works of short fiction, including her bestselling, highly fictionalized autobiographical work l amant 1984, translated into english as the lover, which describes her youthful affair with a chinese man. One of frances most important literary figures, marguerite duras is best known in the united states for her novel the lover, and for her brilliantfilm script hiroshima, mon amour. The novel, lamant, by marguerite duras written in the 50s was translated into english.
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