WRITER

Marguerite Duras

1914 - 1996

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Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (French pronunciation: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit ʒɛʁmɛn maʁi dɔnadjø], 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (French: [maʁɡ(ə)ʁit dyʁas]), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marguerite Duras has received more than 1,288,497 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia. Marguerite Duras is the 274th most popular writer (up from 293rd in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Vietnam (up from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Vietnamese Writer.

Marguerite Duras is most famous for her novel, The Lover, which was published in 1984. The novel tells the story of a French woman who falls in love with a wealthy Chinese man when she is a teenager and then spends the rest of her life trying to recapture that feeling.

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  • 1.3M

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  • 70.72

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 56

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marguerite Duras ranks 274 out of 7,302. Before her are Arthur Miller, Anna Komnene, Walt Whitman, Bartolomé de las Casas, Alcaeus of Mytilene, and Jordanes. After her are Henrik Pontoppidan, Alphonse Daudet, Kenzaburō Ōe, Italo Calvino, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Shmuel Yosef Agnon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Marguerite Duras ranks 7. Before her are Louis de Funès, Yuri Andropov, Hedy Lamarr, Tove Jansson, Thor Heyerdahl, and Tenzing Norgay. After her are Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, Alec Guinness, and Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. Among people deceased in 1996, Marguerite Duras ranks 7. Before her are François Mitterrand, Marcello Mastroianni, Tupac Shakur, Baba Vanga, Thomas Kuhn, and Carl Sagan. After her are Krzysztof Kieślowski, Dzhokhar Dudayev, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Joseph Brodsky, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Whittle.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Marguerite Duras ranks 4 out of 136. Before her are Ho Chi Minh (1890), Ngo Dinh Diem (1901), and Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911). After her are Amanda Lear (1939), Lê Đức Thọ (1911), Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926), Thích Quảng Đức (1897), Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944), Bảo Đại (1913), Ieng Sary (1925), and Lady Sun (192).

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Among WRITERS In Vietnam

Among writers born in Vietnam, Marguerite Duras ranks 1. After her are Phan Bội Châu (1867), Nguyễn Du (1765), Hồ Xuân Hương (1772), Phan Thi Kim Phuc (1963), Dương Thu Hương (1947), Kim Thúy (1968), and Viet Thanh Nguyen (1971).

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