Marguerite Duras by Adler

Laure Adler is a historian and writer who worked for the French Presidency Office as a cultural adviser from 1989 to 1992. L'amour a l'arsenic: histoire de Marie Lafarge, Les femmes politiques, and L'annee des adieux are only a few of her works. Anne-Marie Glasheen's translations include two collections of current playwrights' plays and several novels, the most notable of which is Henry Bauchau's Oedipus on the Road. She was a past Chair of the Translators Association, and the Communaute francaise de Belgique awarded her the literary translation prize in 1998.