Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag | |
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Susan Sontag in 1994, bi Juan Fernando Bastos (commissioned bi the The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide for the 2009 Mey–Juin cover) | |
Born | Susan Rosenblatt 16 Januar 1933 New York Ceety, New York, U.S. |
Died | 28 December 2004 New York Ceety, New York, U.S. | (aged 71)
Cause o daith | Myelodysplastic syndrome |
Restin place | Montparnasse Seemetry Paris, Fraunce |
Naitionality | American |
Thrift | Novelist, essayist |
Years active | 1959–2004 |
Kent for | Fiction, essays, nonfeection |
Hauf-marrae(s) | Philip Rieff (m. 1950–59; divorced)[1] |
Pairtner(s) | Annie Leibovitz (1989–2004; her daith) |
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Susan Sontag (/ˈsɒntæɡ/; Januar 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) wis a Jewish-American writer, filmmaker, teacher, an poleetical activist. She published her first major wark, the essay "Notes on 'Camp'", in 1964. Her best-kent works include On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover, an In America.
Sontag wis active in writin an speakin aboot, or travellin tae, auries o conflict, includin during the Vietnam War an the Siege o Sarajevo. She wrote extensively aboot photografie, cultur an media, AIDS an illness, human richts, an communism an leftist ideology. Awtho her essays an speeches whiles drew controversy,[2] she haes been descrived as "ane o the maist influential creetics o her generation."[3]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ "Finding fact from fiction". London: The Guardian. 27 Mey 2000. Retrieved 19 Juin 2007.
- ↑ "Hooking Up".
- ↑ "Susan Sontag", The New York Review of Books, accessed December 19, 2012
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