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Marguerite Duras is one of the most widely read 20th century French writers and is possibly best known for her book The Lover and her screenplay for Hiroshima mon amour. She was the daughter of Henri Donnadieu, a mathematics teacher from Lot et Garonne in France and Marie Legrand [1] , a farmer's daughter from Pas de Calais, who taught calculus and French grammar.

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Marguerite was the third child and had two older brothers - the elder, Pierre, his mother's favourite, who was born in and the younger, Paul who was born in It was in Vietnam that Duras set her autobiographical novel, The Lover. L'amant was published in France in and first translated into English in Since then the book has been translated into more than forty languages.

Marguerite was a child when her father died, and after attending school and facing poverty in Saigon, she moved to France at the age of 18 to study law and political science. The couple had a child who was stillborn. In , Robert Antelme was arrested and deported to Dachau.

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After the liberation of the camp, he returned to Paris in a greatly weakened state. The couple soon had a son who was named Jean. Marguerite Duras passed away on the 3rd March in Paris 6th arrondissement , France at the age of 81 [1]. The cause of death was cancer of the throat. Her funeral was held in the church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres in Paris and she was buried in Montparnasse cemetary in Paris.

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