WRITER

Marguerite Duras

1914 - 1996

Photo of Marguerite Duras

Icon of person Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (French: [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. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marguerite Duras is the 350th most popular writer (down from 274th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 4th 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.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Marguerite Duras by language

Loading...

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marguerite Duras ranks 350 out of 7,302. Before her are Mikhail Lermontov, J. D. Vance, Amos Oz, Eyvind Johnson, Paul Valéry, and Simonides of Ceos. After her are Peter Drucker, Roald Dahl, Luqman, Giorgos Seferis, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, and O. Henry.

Most Popular Writers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Marguerite Duras ranks 11. Before her are Tove Jansson, Alan Hodgkin, Thor Heyerdahl, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Tyrone Power, and Tenzing Norgay. After her are Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Alec Guinness, Jiang Qing, and Richard Widmark. Among people deceased in 1996, Marguerite Duras ranks 13. Before her are Tadeusz Reichstein, Thomas Kuhn, Carl Sagan, Gladwyn Jebb, Mohammad Najibullah, and Krzysztof Kieślowski. After her are Dzhokhar Dudayev, Frank Whittle, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Kelly, Joseph Brodsky, and Babrak Karmal.

Others Born in 1914

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1996

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Marguerite Duras ranks 6 out of 136. Before her are Ho Chi Minh (1890), Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926), Ngo Dinh Diem (1901), Thích Quảng Đức (1897), and Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911). After her are Amanda Lear (1939), Bảo Đại (1913), Lê Đức Thọ (1911), Lady Sun (192), Ieng Sary (1925), and Kaysone Phomvihane (1920).

Others born in Vietnam

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among WRITERS In Vietnam

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

Vietnamese born Writers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous