Other major works include Moderato Cantabile, also made into a film of the same name, Le Ravissement de Lol V. The Sea Wall was first adapted into the 1958 film This Angry Age by RenГ© ClГ©ment, and again in 2008 by Cambodian director Rithy Panh as The Sea Wall. A film version of The Lover, produced by Claude Berri and directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, was released to great success in 1992. The story of her adolescence also appears in three other forms: The Sea Wall, Eden Cinema and The North China Lover. This text won the Goncourt prize in 1984. CareerДuras was the author of many novels, plays, films, interviews, essays and short fiction, including her best-selling, highly fictionalized autobiographical work L'Amant (1984), translated into English as The Lover, which describes her youthful affair with a Chinese man. In 1943, for her first published novel Les Impudents, she decided to use as pen name the surname of Duras, a village in the Lot-et-Garonne dГ©partement, where her father's house was located. She nursed him back to health, but they divorced once he recovered his health. Her first husband, Robert Antelme, was deported to Buchenwald in 1944 for his involvement in the Resistance, and barely survived the experience (weighing on his release, according to Marguerite, just 38 kg). During the war, from 1942 to 1944, she worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper quotas to publishers (in the process operating a de facto book censorship system), but she was also a member of the French Resistance. In the late 1930s she worked for the French government office representing the colony of Indochina. After completing her studies, she became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party). This she soon abandoned to concentrate on political science, and then law. She also reported being beaten by both her mother and her older brother during this period.ДЄt 17, Marguerite went to France, her parents' native country, where she began studying for a degree in mathematics. An affair between the teenaged Marguerite and Huynh Thuy Le, the son of a rich Sa Dec merchant, was to be treated several times (described in quite contrasting ways) in her subsequent memoirs and fiction. The difficult life that the family experienced during this period was highly influential on Marguerite's later work. The family lived in relative poverty after her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of farmland in Cambodia. After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her three children. Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. Biography YouthДuras was born in Gia-Dinh (a former name for Saigon), Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging French people to settle in the colony. She is best known for writing the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, which earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras ( French: 4 April 1914 вЂ“ 3 March 1996), was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist and experimental filmmaker. Saigon, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam)

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