The Impudent Ones

About the Authors

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) is the internationally known author of the novel The Lover, as well as The War, The North China Lover, Moderato cantabile, and the screenplays of Hiroshima mon amour and India Song, in addition to many other works.

Kelsey L. Haskett has recently retired as professor of French and chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia.

Jean Vallier is the author of C’etait Marguerite Duras, a two-volume biography published in 2006 and 2010 in Paris by Fayard, reissued in a single volume in 2014 by Le Livre de Poche. He lives in New York and Paris.