Susan Sontag, born Susan Rosenblatt, New York, January 16, 1933, was a Jewish American writer, novelist, philosopher, and essayist, as well as a teacher, film director, and screenwriter.

Although she devoted herself mainly to her literary and essay career, she also taught and directed films and plays.

He was raised in Tucson, Arizona, and Los Angeles, where he graduated from North Hollywood High School at the age of 15. She continued her studies at various universities, such as Berkeley, the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago, the University of Paris and Harvard University, in several of which she was also a teacher.

Since then, she has had relationships with Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (with whom she lived after an intense relationship in Paris in 1957), with the Cuban playwright María Irene Fornés and with the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, among others. The last years of her life she had a romantic relationship with the photographer Annie Leibovitz.

In 2001, she received the Jerusalem Prize for Literature.
In 2003, together with the Moroccan author Fátima Mernissi, she received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature.

In 2003, she received the Peace Prize from the German Book Trade.

In the seventies he was diagnosed with cancer. While enduring the harsh treatment for the disease, Sontag conveyed the experience in writing with her extraordinary lucidity. The result was the book The disease and its metaphors. Ten years later, the essay was expanded with AIDS and its metaphors.

In the late 1970s, Sontag was appointed to the American Academy of Letters.

Between 1987 and 1989, she chaired the Pen American Center. In the 1990s, she traveled to Sarajevo, during its siege, and directed performances of Waiting for Godot there, showing her support for the victims of the conflict. After spending various stays there, Sontag was named an Honorary Citizen of Sarajevo.

In the 21st century, she criticized the invasions of the United States in the Middle East, and wondered if the attack on the Twin Towers of 9/11 had nothing to do with her country's foreign policy. For this reason, she was the target of campaigns against her, which included the request that the companies not sponsor the media to publish their articles.

In 2010 and 2013, her diaries, edited by her son David Rieff, were published in Spanish. In a 1947 entry, Susan Sontag explains her way of thinking as follows:

"11/23/47"

I believe:

That there is no personal god or life after death.

That the most desirable thing in the world is the freedom to be true to oneself, that is, honesty.

That the only difference between human beings is intelligence.

That the sole criterion of an action is its ultimate effect on a person's happiness or unhappiness.

That it is wrong to deprive anyone of life.


Wow, this woman surprised me, especially because of her non-belief beliefs, and that the fact that a woman in 2003 was a lesbian, leads me to think about many things, the first one, Can you imagine how much rejection she suffered That woman? That she even had to hide it until the last years of her life, also the fact that she is an atheist, born of a Jewish family, leads me to think that she was someone different and even though she was not someone super important, she was successful and I think they deserve to know her history