Susan Sontag - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• 1978: National Book Critics Circle Award for On Photography
• 1990: MacArthur Fellowship
• 1992: Malaparte Prize, Italy
• 1999: Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France
• 2000: National Book Award for In America
• 2001: Was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, which is awarded every two years to a writer whose work explores the freedom of the individual in society.
• 2002: Received her second George Polk Award, for Cultural Criticism for "Looking at War," in The New Yorker
• 2003: Received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels) during the Frankfurt Book Fair (Frankfurter Buchmesse).
• 2003: Won the Prince of Asturias Award on Literature.
• 2004: Two days after her death, the mayor of Sarajevo announced the city would name a street after her, calling her an "author and a humanist who actively participated in the creation of the history of Sarajevo and Bosnia." An initiative by Sarajevo Mayor Muhidin Hamamdzic to pay tribute to Susan Sontag, who has died recently, by renaming Theatre Square outside the National Theatre Susan Sontag Theatre Square, was accepted on Thursday (27 January) at a session of the Sarajevo City Council. It took long 5 years for that to become official, since nationalist political parties ignored that promise. On March 30, 2009, it was officially announced that Theater Square in front of National Theater in Sarajevo will get the name of Susan Sontag. On January 13, 2010, the city of Sarajevo posted a plate with a new street name for Theater Square: Theater Square of Susan Sontag.