Writers of international renown represented include Joseph Brodsky, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Nadine Gordimer, Czeslaw Milosz, and Octavio Paz.

The correspondence in the Susan Sontag Archive consists of some 2,500 letters to and from major authors, artists, and other figures representing a wide range of creative and intellectual pursuits. In Spring 2002, exhibitions in the Powell Library Rotunda and in Library Special Collections celebrated this majorĪcquisition by presenting an introduction to the correspondence and publications in the archive. In addition to this award in recognition of her entire career in letters, Sontag's novel In America won the National Book Award for Fiction and her book of essays On Photography received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. This prize, awarded biannually at the Jerusalem International Book Fair, is second only to the Nobel Prize for literary prestige. One of America's best known and most influential writers, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize in 2001 for the body of her work. Novels, a play, and four full-length films. Sontag's oeuvre includes seven major works of nonfiction, four This extensive archive includes manuscripts of her writings correspondence with contemporary writers, artists, musicians, and other intellectual and historical figures her personal notebooks and her private library, consisting of more than 20,000 books in all areas of literature, the arts, history and the social sciences. In 2002 the UCLA Library acquired the papers of Susan Sontag, a unique record of her distinguished career in American letters. Susan Sontag Papers - View Online Finding Aid

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Sontag on photography