Duras

British  

/ dyra /

noun

1. Marguerite , real name Marguerite Donnadieu . 1914–96, French novelist born in Giadinh, Indochina (now in Vietnam). Her works include The Sea Wall (1950), Practicalities (1990), Écrire (1993), and the script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1960)

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Describing himself as an "anarcho-confectioner," Godin began his campaign with a pie in the face of author Marguerite Duras in 1969.

From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026

Blanc’s character, lifted from a book by the French author Marguerite Duras, awaits her husband’s return from a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, uncertain whether he is even alive.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

Lawrence, Doris Lessing, Marguerite Duras and Thomas Hardy, Gornick astutely shows how books are intertwined with ourselves, shifting and evolving over time even as we do.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2023

Malanda says Diop encouraged her to speak as if she was reading Marguerite Duras.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

But, owing apparently to the maladroit way in which the Duc de Duras, who had charge of the memoir, presented his case, it was refused; and, at the following Easter, Mlle.

From Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel Williams