Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag pada tahun 1979
Lahir	Susan Rosenblatt (1933-01-16)16 Januari 1933 New York, New York, Amerika Serikat
Meninggal	28 Desember 2004(2004-12-28) (umur 71) New York, New York, Amerika Serikat
Sebab meninggal	Sindrom myelodysplastic
Kebangsaan	Amerika
Nama lain	The Dark Lady of American Letters
Pekerjaan	Novelis, pembuat esai
Tahun aktif	1959–2004
Suami/istri	Philip Rieff (m. 1950–1959; bercerai)
Pasangan	Annie Leibovitz
Anak	David Rieff (kelahiran 1952)
Situs web	susansontag.com
Penghargaan (2003) Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (en) (2003) Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' Association (en) (2001) Penghargaan Jerussalem (2000) National Book Award for Fiction (en) (2000) National Book Award (en) (1975) Guggenheim Fellowship (en) (1966) Guggenheim Fellowship (en) (1965) George Polk Award (en) MacArthur Fellows Program (en) Harvard Centennial Medal (en) Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎ (en) National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism (en)

Susan Sontag (16 Januari 1933 – 28 Desember 2004) adalah seorang penulis dan pembuat film, pengajar dan aktivis politik Amerika, yang menerbitkan karya utama pertamanya, sebuah esai yang berjudul "Notes on 'Camp'", pada 1964. Karya paling dikenal buatannya meliputi On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover dan In America.

Kehidupan awal dan pendidikan

Sontag lahir dengan nama Susan Rosenblatt di kota New York, sebagai putri dari Mildred (née Jacobson) dan Jack Rosenblatt, keduanya Yahudi.

Referensi

• Poague, Leland (ed.) Conversations with Susan Sontag, University of Mississippi Press, 1995 ISBN 0-87805-833-8
• Rollyson, Carl and Lisa Paddock, Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, W. W. Norton, 2000

Bacaan tambahan

• Sayres, Sohnya. Susan Sontag: The Elegiac Modernist ISBN 0-415-90031-X
• Seligman, Craig. Sontag and Kael ISBN 1-58243-311-9.
• The Din in the Head. Essays by Cynthia Ozick ISBN 978-0-618-47050-1 See Forward: On Discord and Desire.
• Swimming in a Sea of Death by David Rieff A memoir about Susan Sontag's death by her son.
• Notes on Sontag by Phillip Lopate
• Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag by Sigrid Nunez

Pranala luar

• Susan Sontag, official website
• Edward Hirsch (Winter 1995). "Susan Sontag, The Art of Fiction No. 143". The Paris Review. 
• "with Ramona Koval", Books and Writing, ABC Radio National, 30/1/2005
• Susan Sontag and Richard Howard from "The Writer, The Work," a series sponsored by PEN and curated by Susan Sontag
• Susan Sontag wrote an essay: On American Language and Culture Diarsipkan 2013-01-08 di Wayback Machine. from PEN American Center
• The Politics of Translation: Discussion Diarsipkan 2015-09-24 di Wayback Machine., with panel members Susan Sontag, Esther Allen, Ammiel Alcalay, Michael Hofmann & Steve Wasserman, PEN American Center
• Susan Sontag Diarsipkan 2007-09-26 di Wayback Machine. – Photos by Mathieu Bourgois.
• The Friedenspreis acceptance speech (2003-10-12)
• Fascinating Fascism illustrated text of Sontag's seminal 1974 article on Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl's aesthetics, from Under the Sign of Saturn
• Sontag's comments in The New Yorker, September 24, 2001 about the September 11th attack on the United States
• Terry Castle, Desperately Seeking Susan, London Review of Books, March 2005
• Sheelah Kolhatkar, "Notes on camp Sontag" Diarsipkan 2007-11-09 di Wayback Machine. New York Observer, January 8, 2005
• Susan Sontag di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• 'Susan Sontag: The Collector' Diarsipkan 2009-04-11 di Wayback Machine., by Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Republic
• A review of "Reborn" by James Patrick
• In Depth interview with Sontag, March 2, 2003