American author Susan Sontag battled for literature, human rights
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Susan Sontag, who has died at the age of 71, was one of the most respected American writers of her generation and an ardent human rights activist who opposed the Vietnam war and stirred controversy with her thoughts on the September 11 attacks.
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Writer loses long-running battle with cancer
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California Democrat's experience during the Holocaust shaped his concern for human rights.
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Author and social critic Susan Sontag, one of the strongest voices of intellectual opposition to US policies after the September 11 attacks, has died at the age of 71.
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For only the ninth time in the 103-year history of the Nobel Prize, the award for literature has gone to a woman. Elfriede Jelinek was commended for her frequent critiques of consumerism and the subjugation of women.
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The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded today to Elfriede Jelinek &quot;for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society&#39;s clichÃ©s and their subjugating power
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LONDON -- Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy has been awarded one of Britain's oldest literary honors for his tale of a father and son's travels through a post-apocalyptic America.
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While cities around the world hosted upbeat gay pride parades in recent weeks, human-rights activists kept watch on a contrasting set of developments: gays beaten by demonstrators in Moscow, convicted on sodomy charges in Cameroon, targeted by sweeping anti-gay legislation in Nigeria.
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Sarajevo authorities will name a street after Susan Sontag, who helped the city's residents during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
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Author and activist Susan Sontag has died in New York. She was 71. News of her death today came from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan.
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A Sikh author, who went into hiding after her play sparked violent protests, defended her work as one that explored how people can enter a "prison of hypocrisy" and hoped it could still be staged.
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PARIS Elfriede Jelinek, a reclusive Austrian novelist and playwright who is well known in the German-speaking world for works that denounce sexual violence and oppression and rightist extremism in Austria, was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature on
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NEW YORK - Susan Sontag, a leading intellectual and activist of the past half century who introduced the concept of &quot;camp&quot; to mainstream culture and influenced the way many thought about art, illness and photography, died Tuesday.
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NEW YORK: Feminist and author Susan Sontag, who died yesterday in a New York cancer hospital at the age of 71, was one of the most respected US writers of her generation, a leading campaigner for women and an ardent human rights activist who stirred
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Social critic and author Susan Sontag, one of America&#39;s leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday at age 71 at New York&#39;s Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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Human rights advocates and the German media used the international forum of the St.
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A revolutionary who fought for spontaneity over correctness JULIA CHILD, 1912-2004