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About Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Donnadieu known as Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 3 March 1996) was a French novelist playwright screenwriter essayist and experimental filmmaker. Her 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.Duras was the author of many novels plays films interviews essays and works of short fiction including her best-selling highly fictionalized autobiographical work L'Amant (1984) translated into English as The Lover which describes her youthful affair with a Chinese man. It won the Goncourt prize in 1984. Rachel Kushner is the author of The Hard Crowd her acclaimed essay collection and the internationally bestselling novels The Mars Room The Flamethrowers and Telex from Cuba as well as a book of short stories The Strange Case of Rachel K. She has won the Prix Médicis and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize the National Book Critics Circle Award the Folio Prize and was twice a finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books are translated into twenty-seven languages.