![]() ![]() Following the death of her father when Duras was four years old, her mother spent the family's savings on a rice plantation, hoping the venture would prove viable enough to support her and her three young children. Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĪ Childhood in Indochina Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on April 4, 1914, near Saigon (present-day Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam, then known as French Indochina, where her parents had moved to teach school. Featured in numerous interviews on television and in popular magazines in France, Duras became something of a national literary phenomenon. The publication of The Lover sparked interest in all her work, which was quickly republished to meet the overwhelming demand. ![]() She was always considered a rather inaccessible author by the general public. Although Duras had been writing fiction and directing films for over forty years, One of the most important literary figures in France, Marguerite Duras won international acclaim after she was awarded the 1984 Prix Goncourt for her autobiographical novel The Lover. ![]()
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