Frankfurt, Germany
American writer Susan Sontag won Germany’s most prestigious book award this week, the German Booksellers Peace Prize. Sontag, a novelist and essayist, has been particularly popular in Germany since 9/11, because of her strong anti-war stance. Her columns criticizing the Bush administration have been translated into German and reprinted in many German newspapers. At her acceptance speech, Sontag got wild applause when she blasted the American ambassador for not attending the ceremony, calling his absence further evidence of “the rancorous reactiveness of the Bush administration.”
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