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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 1,190,014 page views. Her biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Marguerite Duras is the 293rd most popular writer (down from 286th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Vietnam 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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  • 56

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  • 6.23

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  • 3.97

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marguerite Duras ranks 293 out of 5,755Before her are Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Ernst Jünger, Simonides of Ceos, Alice Munro, and Claude Simon. After her are Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Margaret Mitchell, Mikhail Sholokhov, Lucan, Saadi Shirazi, and Fuzûlî.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Marguerite Duras ranks 8Before her are Yuri Andropov, Tove Jansson, Thor Heyerdahl, Hedy Lamarr, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and Tenzing Norgay. After her are Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, Aribert Heim, Alec Guinness, Romain Gary, and Julio Cortázar. Among people deceased in 1996, Marguerite Duras ranks 9Before her are Marcello Mastroianni, Thomas Kuhn, Tupac Shakur, Carl Sagan, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Jean-Bédel Bokassa. After her are Dzhokhar Dudayev, Ella Fitzgerald, Joseph Brodsky, Babrak Karmal, René Lacoste, and Paul Erdős.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Marguerite Duras ranks 5 out of 124Before her are Ho Chi Minh (1890), Ngo Dinh Diem (1901), Amanda Lear (1939), and Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911). After her are Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926), Thích Quảng Đức (1897), Bảo Đại (1913), Lê Đức Thọ (1911), Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944), Dương Văn Minh (1916), and Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923).

Among WRITERS In Vietnam

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