Born Marguerite Donnadieu in Gia Dinh, French Indochina (now Vietnam); educated at the Sorbonne, Paris. Influential novelist who had several of her works brought to the screen by others, contributed the haunting script for Alain Resnais's HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (1959), and began her own career as a film writer-director in the mid-1960s. Associated with the nouveau roman school, Duras generally eschewed action and plot in favor of stylized meditations on themes such as memory, subjectivity and the nature of human relationships. Visit the Internet Movie Database to view Duras' acting, directing and screenwriting credits.  Nominated for Writing (Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) 1960: HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR 1 nomination