Marguerite Duras

Duras, Marguerite (1914–96), French writer, associated with the New Wave in France during the 1950s and 1960s. Her works include the novels The Sea Wall (1950), Moderato Cantabile (1958), La Douleur (1985), and C'est Tout (1995), and the film scripts Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) and The Lover (1984).