Me & Other Writing is a guidebook to the extraordinary breadth of Duras’s nonfiction. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert to the “scattering of desire” to the Holocaust within the body of her essays overall, style is always evolving, subject matter shifting, as her mind pushes beyond the obvious toward ever-original ground. In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras’s curiosity was endless, her intellect voracious. He was designated in 2017 as editor of Muriel Spark’s letters.Ī new collection of Duras’s essays, translated into English for the first time. He is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature & English at the American University of Paris where he directs the Center for Writers & Translators. Her translations include Anne Garréta’s Sphinx and Not One Day, Virginie Despentes’s Pretty Things, Ahmed Bouanani’s The Shutters, and Marcus Malte’s The Boy.ĭan Gunn is a novelist, critic, and translator, as well as being one of the editors of the four-volume Letters of Samuel Beckett and editor of the Cahiers Series.
She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship, a PEN/Heim grant, and a Fulbright for her translation work. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature and a Master of the Arts in Cultural Translation from the American University of Paris.Įmma Ramadan is a literary translator based in Providence, RI, where she co-owns Riffraff, a bookstore and bar. Olivia Baes is a trilingual Franco-American writer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her internationally bestselling novel The Lover, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1984. Duras wrote many novels, plays, films, and essays during her lifetime. During WWII she was active in the Resistance, and in 1945 she joined the Communist Party.
Born Marguerite Donnadieu in 1914 in what was then French Indochina, she went to Paris in 1931 to study at the Sorbonne. Marguerite Duras was one of France’s most important and prolific writers.
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