Susan Sontag
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.
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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. |
| Dee'd | 28 December 2004 (aged 71) New York Ceety, New York, U.S. |
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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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]
ReferencesEedit
- ↑ "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