1914 - 1996
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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Among writers, Marguerite Duras ranks 293 out of 5,755. Before 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.
1836 - 1895
HPI: 70.11
Rank: 287
1926 - 2011
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 288
1895 - 1998
HPI: 70.03
Rank: 289
556 BC - 468 BC
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 290
1931 - Present
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 291
1913 - 2005
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 292
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 293
1876 - 1944
HPI: 69.95
Rank: 294
1900 - 1949
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 295
1905 - 1984
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 296
39 - 65
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 297
1210 - 1291
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 298
1494 - 1556
HPI: 69.87
Rank: 299
Among people born in 1914, Marguerite Duras ranks 8. Before 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 9. Before 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.
1914 - 1984
HPI: 77.66
Rank: 2
1914 - 2001
HPI: 74.65
Rank: 3
1914 - 2002
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 4
1914 - 2000
HPI: 73.16
Rank: 5
1914 - 2007
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 6
1914 - 1986
HPI: 70.53
Rank: 7
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 8
1914 - 1991
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 9
1914 - 1944
HPI: 68.94
Rank: 10
1914 - 1992
HPI: 68.72
Rank: 11
1914 - 2000
HPI: 68.65
Rank: 12
1914 - 1980
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 13
1914 - 1984
HPI: 67.66
Rank: 14
1924 - 1996
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 3
1922 - 1996
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 4
1971 - 1996
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 5
1934 - 1996
HPI: 71.94
Rank: 6
1941 - 1996
HPI: 71.93
Rank: 7
1921 - 1996
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 8
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 9
1944 - 1996
HPI: 69.32
Rank: 10
1917 - 1996
HPI: 68.71
Rank: 11
1940 - 1996
HPI: 67.60
Rank: 12
1929 - 1996
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 13
1904 - 1996
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 14
1913 - 1996
HPI: 66.35
Rank: 15
Among people born in Vietnam, Marguerite Duras ranks 5 out of 124. Before 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).
1890 - 1969
HPI: 77.58
Rank: 1
1901 - 1963
HPI: 72.00
Rank: 2
1939 - Present
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 3
1911 - 2013
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 4
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 5
1926 - 2022
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 6
1897 - 1963
HPI: 67.75
Rank: 7
1913 - 1997
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 8
1911 - 1990
HPI: 65.49
Rank: 9
1944 - Present
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 10
1916 - 2001
HPI: 63.26
Rank: 11
1923 - 2001
HPI: 63.21
Rank: 12
Among writers born in Vietnam, Marguerite Duras ranks 1. After 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).
1914 - 1996
HPI: 69.97
Rank: 1
1765 - 1820
HPI: 54.73
Rank: 2
1867 - 1940
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 3
1963 - Present
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 4
1772 - 1822
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 5
1947 - Present
HPI: 46.23
Rank: 6
1968 - Present
HPI: 39.19
Rank: 7
1971 - Present
HPI: 32.32
Rank: 8