Literature is Freedom

Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, a collection of stories, several plays, and seven works of nonfiction. Her books have been translated into thirty-two languages. On 12 October 2003 at the Frankfurt Paulskirche, she delivered Literature is Freedom, her acceptance speech for the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

Past recipients of this prestigious prize, awarded annually since 1950, include Martin Buber, Hermann Hesse, Paul Tillich, Ernst Bloch, Max Frisch, Octavio Paz, Vaclav Havel, Mario Vargas Llosa, Amos Oz, Fritz Stern, and Chinua Achebe.