Marguerite Duras (b. 1914 – 3 March 1996) was an acclaimed experimental writer and film director, often associated with the Nouveau Roman literary movement and the French New Wave. She wrote the screenplay for Alain Resnais’ first feature, Hiroshima mon amour (1959), and subsequently wrote a number of film adaptations from her own novels including Moderato Cantabile (1960) for Peter Brook. She also wrote and directed 19 film including India Song (1975), for which she won France’s Cinema Academy Grand Prix.