Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.
Biografie
Susan Sontag, 1933 in New York geboren, ist Schriftstellerin, Filmemacherin und Theaterregisseurin. Sie erhielt unter anderen den Jerusalem Prize, den National Book Award, den Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis und 2003 den Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels. Sie starb 2004 in New York.
