Kdo je hodil z Susan Sontag?

Susan Sontag (angleška izgovorjava , ameriška pisateljica in filmarka, profesorica, literarna ikona in politična aktivistka, * 16. januar 1933, † 28. december 2004.

Od izida eseja Zapiski o campu (Notes on 'Camp', 1964) je bila mednarodna kulturna in intelektualna zvezda. Njena najbolj znana dela vključujejo On Photography, Against Interpretation, Styles of Radical Will, The Way We Live Now, Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others, The Volcano Lover in In America.

Sontagova je aktivno pisala, govorila in poročala s konfliktnih območij, tudi med vietnamsko vojno in obleganjem Sarajeva. Veliko je pisala o fotografiji, kulturi in medijih, aidsu in bolezni, človekovih pravicah, komunizmu in levičarski ideologiji. Njeni pogosto provokativni eseji in govori so bili včasih deležni kritike. The New York Review of Books jo je označil kot "eno najvplivnejših med kritiki njene generacije."

María Irene Fornés (May 14, 1930 – October 30, 2018) was a Cuban and American playwright, director, and teacher. She was an important figure in the development of New York’s off-off-Broadway movement and Downtown Arts Scene. Over the course of her career, she wrote more than forty plays and musicals, won nine Obie Awards, and mentored "thousands of playwrights across the globe". Her play What of the Night? was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1990, the first work by a Latino playwright to receive said distinction. Signature Theatre Company devoted its 1999–2000 season to her work, while The Public Theater presented a fourteen-play "Fornés Marathon" in 2018.

Her notable works include Promenade (1965), Fefu and Her Friends (1977), Mud (1983), Sarita (1984), and Letters from Cuba (2000). Her plays have been produced both on and off Broadway, as well as internationally". Many theater luminaries—including Tony Kushner, Caryl Churchill, Paula Vogel, Lanford Wilson, and Edward Albee—have acknowledged her influence. Wilson remarked that her work "has no precedents; it isn’t derived from anything… She’s the most original of us all". Vogel similarly noted, "In the work of every American playwright at the end of the 20th century, there are only two stages: before you have read María Irene Fornés – and after".

Fornés taught playwriting at New York University for thirty-three years (1966–1999) and received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Bates College in 1992. As the director of INTAR Theatre’s Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Lab, she mentored multiple generations of Latino playwrights, including Cherríe Moraga, Migdalia Cruz, Nilo Cruz, Caridad Svich, and Eduardo Machado. Notices of her’ death in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Vogue described Fornés as "a pioneer of the American theater", "a totemic figure to many academics and artists", and "among the most influential Latinx voices of the 20th century".

Anna-Lou »Annie« Leibovitz, ameriška fotografinja, * 2. oktober 1949, Waterbury, Connecticut.

Annie Liebovitz se je kot fotografinja uveljavila s sodelovanjem pri reviji Rolling Stone, kasneje je med drugim delala za revijo Vanity Fair. Še danes je ena najbolj priznanih fotografov znanih osebnosti.

Nicole Stéphane (French pronunciation: [nikɔl stefan]; born Baroness Nicole de Rothschild, 27 May 1923 – 13 March 2007) was a French actress, producer and director.