Marguerite Duras was born in Giadinh, Vietnam (then Indochina) to French parents. During her lifetime she wrote dozens of plays, film scripts, and novels, including <i>The Ravishing of Lol Stein</i>, <i>The Sea Wall</i>, and <i>Hiroshima, Mon Amour</i>, and was associated with the nouveau roman (or new novel) French literary movement. Duras is probably most well known for <i>The Lover</i>, an autobiographical work that received the Goncourt prize in 1984 and was made into a film in 1992. She died in Paris in 1996 at the age of 81. /images/marguerite_duras.jpg 2008-03-17T12:42:10-07:00 Marguerite 7 Duras duras 2008-03-17T19:11:33-07:00