Birthday:
Birthday:

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), 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. Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. They both had previous marriages. Marguerite had two brothers: Pierre, the older, and the younger Paul. Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921, when Duras was seven years old. Between 1922 and 1924, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. The family struggled financially, and her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Prey Nob, a story which was fictionalized in Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall). In 1931, 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. Duras returned to Saigon in late 1932 where her mother found a teaching post. There, Marguerite continued her education at the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat and completed the second part of the baccalaureate, specializing in philosophy. In autumn 1933, Duras moved to Paris, graduating with a degree in public law in 1936. At the same time, she took classes in mathematics. She continued her education, earning a diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) in public law and, later, in political economy. After finishing her studies in 1937, she found employment with the French government at the Ministry of the Colonies. In 1939, she married the writer Robert Antelme, whom she had met during her studies. During World War II, from 1942 to 1944, Duras worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper quotas to publishers and in the process operated a de facto book-censorship system. She then became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party) and a member of the French Resistance as a part of a small group that also included François Mitterrand, who later became President of France and remained a lifelong friend of hers. Duras' husband, Antelme, was deported to Buchenwald in 1944 for his involvement in the Resistance, and barely survived the experience (weighing on his release, according to Duras, just 38 kg, or 84 pounds). She nursed him back to health, but they divorced once he recovered. In 1943, when publishing her first novel, she began to use the surname Duras, after the town that her father came from, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne. In 1950, her mother returned to France from Indochina, wealthy from property investments and from the boarding school she had run. ... Source: Article "Marguerite Duras" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Birthday: April 04, 1914
Death: March 03, 1996

December 01, 2008

June 10, 1959

September 27, 1973

January 22, 1992

June 01, 1966

February 09, 1977

October 07, 1981

May 27, 1977

June 08, 1977

June 02, 1976

September 25, 1969

April 03, 1974

July 14, 2004

January 01, 1981

June 04, 1975

February 01, 1985

March 30, 2022

May 17, 1961

January 01, 1978

August 27, 1978

March 21, 1979

February 23, 1983

August 11, 1969

January 01, 1979

January 01, 1979

January 01, 1964

January 07, 2009

May 25, 1960

March 03, 1967

November 25, 1981

January 01, 1994

March 26, 1985

February 16, 1971

April 14, 1964

January 01, 1978

November 25, 1965

October 31, 1957

September 07, 1961

November 13, 1982

October 07, 2015

July 20, 2023

July 02, 1976

August 17, 2017

June 02, 2021

October 24, 1966

December 10, 2018

August 26, 1966

April 01, 1989

February 15, 2004

January 01, 1967

February 19, 2021

Unknown

May 11, 1966

January 01, 1985

February 06, 1994

November 01, 2023

July 03, 2014

January 01, 1981

January 07, 2022

January 01, 1984

January 31, 1983

January 01, 1993

August 04, 1994

November 25, 1965

April 04, 2003

June 12, 1984

November 06, 2015

January 05, 2020

December 02, 1987

February 28, 2005

April 30, 1965

July 01, 1984

April 02, 2018

September 30, 2020

May 03, 1976

January 01, 1966

January 14, 2020

October 28, 1965

July 28, 1965

February 25, 1966

November 12, 1967

March 10, 1968

May 12, 2021

January 01, 1984

June 15, 1980

March 25, 1976

June 05, 2023