This author first gained fame for a novel about Anne Desbaresdes, who witnesses a murder at a cafÃ© while at her son's piano lesson; that novel is named after a musical direction from the first movement of a sonatina by Diabelli. The title character of one of her novels is abandoned by her fiancÃ©, Michael Richardson, and ends up marrying Jean Bedford, although she is also involved with Jacques Hold. This author of Moderato Cantabile and The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein won the Prix Goncourt for a novel set in colonial Vietnam, about a fifteen-year-old girl who has a love affair with a 27-year-old Chinese man, but she may be best known for a wor
This author first gained fame for a novel about Anne Desbaresdes, who witnesses a murder at a cafÃ© while at her son's piano lesson; that novel is named after a musical direction from the first movement of a sonatina by Diabelli. The title character of one of her novels is abandoned by her fiancÃ©, Michael Richardson, and ends up marrying Jean Bedford, although she is also involved with Jacques Hold. This author of Moderato Cantabile and The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein won the Prix Goncourt for a novel set in colonial Vietnam, about a fifteen-year-old girl who has a love affair with a 27-year-old Chinese man, but she may be best known for a work in which a French actress and a Japanese architect argue about memory and forgetfulness.  For 10 points, name this author of The Lover who wrote the screenplay for Hiroshima mon amour.
This author first gained fame for a novel about Anne Desbaresdes, who witnesses a murder at a cafÃ© while at her son's piano lesson; that novel is named after a musical direction from the first movement of a sonatina by Diabelli.
Marguerite Duras