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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, has died aged 71.
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Calling herself an "obsessed moralist", Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
Her greatest literary impact was as an essayist, however, with her 1964 study of homosexual aesthetics Notes on Camp establishing her as a major new writer.
Sontag, who described herself as a "zealot of seriousness", was also a human rights activist and an outspoken opponent of US foreign policy.
She prompted controversy when she wrote that the September 2001 attacks on the US were not a "cowardly attack" on civilisation, but "an act undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions".
She also criticised US President George W Bush over the US-led war in Iraq.
When Ms. Sontag made her comments after 9/11 I applauded her wisdom and courage to speak out. Blessed be Susan. You will be missed.
Excerpt:
Calling herself an "obsessed moralist", Sontag was the author of 17 books and a lifelong human rights activist.
Her greatest literary impact was as an essayist, however, with her 1964 study of homosexual aesthetics Notes on Camp establishing her as a major new writer.
Sontag, who described herself as a "zealot of seriousness", was also a human rights activist and an outspoken opponent of US foreign policy.
She prompted controversy when she wrote that the September 2001 attacks on the US were not a "cowardly attack" on civilisation, but "an act undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions".
She also criticised US President George W Bush over the US-led war in Iraq.
When Ms. Sontag made her comments after 9/11 I applauded her wisdom and courage to speak out. Blessed be Susan. You will be missed.
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