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Marguerite Duras

Hiroshima Mon Amour
text by Marguerite Duras for the film by Alain Resnais
Publisher: Grove Press
Country: USA (New York)
Year: 1961
Format: Book, paperback

Marguerite Donnadieu known as Marguerite Duras 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. She was associated with the nouveau roman French literary movement, although she did not belong definitively to any one group. She was noted for her command of dialogue.