![]() ![]() 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. She was born at Gia-Dinh, near Saigon, French Indochina (now Vietnam), after her parents responded to a campaign by the French government encouraging people to work in the colony. Marguerite Donnadieu, better known as Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 - 3 March 1996) was a French writer and film director. ![]()
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