In 1942, she had a child by Antelme but it died at birth. She was a member of the Resistance during the war, where she got to know François Mitterrand. There she met Robert Antelme, a communist and writer. She earned a degree in law and political science in Paris and then worked for the Ministry of the Colonies. After attending the Lycée de Saigon, she left to go to school in France in 1932. The theme of how her mother was cheated by the colonial authorities appears in some of her novels. Her father died when she was four, and her mother bought a rice plantation which continually flooded. She was born in 1914 in Giandinh, near Saigon as Marguerite Donnadieu. Nevertheless, she is considered as one of the most important French writers of the twentieth century. As a result, till the more conventional L’Amant (The Lover) was published in 1984 (later made into a successful film), she was not particularly commercially successful, though she had had a long career, both as a writer and film director. Marguerite Duras was one of the group mainly published by Éditions de Minuit who became known as nouveau roman writers.
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