![]() ![]() Her most noted novel is "L'Amant", the story of a girl, from a poor French family in Indochina, who becomes the mistress of a wealthy Indochinese notable's son. She claimed to have rescued French president François Mitterand during World War II, when he was a resistance fighter and remained a friend and unconditional campaigner. ![]() For the film India Song (1975), she won France's Cinema Academy Grand Prix. In addition to her writing, she also directed about 16 films. She wrote 34 novels from 1943 to 1993, and became an enduring part of Paris's intellectual elite. As a young woman, she worked as a secretary in France's Ministry of Colonies from 1935 to 1941, before becoming a writer. John Cowling, film review for HIS 467H, University of Toronto, Fall 2010. 385) Marguerite Donnadieu/Duras apparently refused to write of the lover’s Asianness so long as her mother was still alive. Duras left Indochina to study law in Paris. Jean Vallier, C’était Marguerite Duras (Paris: Fayard, 2006), 379-385. The disaster killed her mother as a result. The family savings of 20 years bought the family a small plot in Cambodia, but everything was lost in a single season's flooding. Duras was born in southern Vietnam and lost her father at age 4. Marguerite Duras was born on April 04, 1914, is Writer, Director, Actress. ![]()
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