من واعد سوزان سونتاج؟

سوزان سونتاج (الإنجليزية: Susan Sontag) (16 يناير 1933 - 28 ديسمبر 2004) ناقدة ومخرجة وروائية أميركية، من أعمالها الروائية "Against interpretation" عام 1966، و"The benefactor" عام 1963، و"styles of radical will" عام 1969، ومن أفلامها كمخرجة "Brother carl" عام 1974. وصل مجموع انتاجها الكتابي إلى 17 كتاب، مابين القصص والمسرحيات وروايتين ومجموعة من الأعمال النقدية، والتي ترجمت إلى 32 لغة حول العالم.

عرفت بنشاطها السياسي إلى جانب نشاطها الأدبي، فناهضت حرب فيتنام، وسافرت إلى مدينة سراييفو للتضامن مع سكان المدينة أثناء حصارها 1989، وعلى إثره منحت لقب مواطنة شرفية. كما نشطت في حقوق الإنسان، ووجهت انتقاداتها للسياسات الأمريكية في أكثر من مناسبة.

عانت سوزان من مرض السرطان 3 مرات في حياتها، إلى أن توفيت به في عام 2004، صدر عن حياتها فيلم وثائقي بعنوان (نظرة إلى سوزان سونتاج)، وكتاب حول سيرتها الذاتية بعنوان (سوزان سونتاج صنع أيقونة) عام 2018، من كتابة كارل روليسون وليزا بادوك.

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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".

نيكول ستيفان (بالفرنسية: Nicole Stéphane) هي منتجة أفلام ومخرجة وممثلة فرنسية، ولدت في 27 مايو 1923 بباريس في فرنسا، وتوفيت في 14 مارس 2007 في فرنسا.