![]() ![]() This she soon changed to political science and then law. She also reported being beaten by her mother and her older brother.Īt 17, Marguerite went to France, where she began studying mathematics. An affair between the teenaged Marguerite and a rich merchant, provided the basis for The Lover. The experience greatly influenced her writing. The family lived in relative poverty after her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property. ![]() After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her three children. Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. However, my favorite of her books is the autobiographical novel The Lover, published in 1984, which won the prestigious Goncourt Prize in French literature, given by the Académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year."ĭuras was born in French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to move in the colony. Marguerite Duras is most known for her screenplay of the successful 1959 French film Hiroshima Mon Amour, directed by Alain Resnais. ![]()
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