Hvem daterte María Irene Fornés?

María Irene Fornés (May 14, 1930 – October 30, 2018) was a Cuban-American playwright, director, and teacher. Often referred to as “Mother Avant-Garde" of the American theater,” Fornés proved a central 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.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) var en amerikansk forfatter, skribent og feminist. Hun er særlig kjent for sine betraktninger om fotografiet, etikk, sykdom, krig, pornografi, kunstfilm, og har blitt oversatt til flere språk.

Sontag ble født Susan Rosenblatt i en jødisk familie av tysk-litauisk opprinnelse i New York. Hennes far var kjøpmann, mens moren var lærerinne. Hun ble oppdratt av besteforeldrene, da foreldrene var i Kina. Da hun var seks år døde faren av tuberkulose, og moren giftet seg på nytt. Hennes stefars navn var Sontag. 14 år gammel møtte hun forfatteren Thomas Mann, og 16 år gammel, i 1949, begynte hun å studere fransk, litteratur og filosofi ved universitetet i Chicago. Allerede i 1950 giftet hun seg med sosiologen Philip Rief, og fikk en sønn. Sammen med mannen publiserte hun en studie over Sigmund Freuds innflytelse på den moderne kultur. Siden 1970-årene levde hun i et forhold med fotografen Annie Leibovitz.

Den 12. oktober 2003 fikk hun de tyske bokhandleres fredspris i Frankfurter Paulskirche.

Hun døde 71 år gammel av leukemi.

Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (March 26, 1928 – June 21, 2019) was an American writer and artist's model.