Hvem daterede María Irene Fornés?

María Irene Fornés (May 14, 1930 – October 30, 2018) was a Cuban and American playwright, director, and teacher. She was an important 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 (født Rosenblatt )(16. januar 1933 i New York, New York, USA – 28. december 2004) var amerikansk essayist, forfatter, venstreorienteret intellektuel og aktivist.

Harriet Sohmers Zwerling var en amerikansk forfatter og kunstnermodel. Hun var et betydningsfuldt medlem af beatgenerationen og boede i Paris i 1950'erne og var en del boheme-miljøet omkring James Baldwin.

Hun oversatte en roman af Marquis de Sade for Obelisk Press og arbejdede for International Herald Tribune. I 1959 flyttede hun til New York og blev en del af det litterære miljø dér, og hvor hun udgav historier, arbejdede som redaktør og model for nogle af New Yorks vigtigste malere. Hun havde elskere af begge køn (bl.a. Susan Sontag). I 1963 giftede hun sig med sømanden og bohemen Louis Zwerling, som hun fik en søn med, musikeren Milo Z. Hun underviste i Brooklyn i 28 år. I 2003 udkom en samling af hendes tekster, Notes of a Nude Model & Other Pieces. Hun er med i dokumentarfilmen Still Doing It om ældre kvinders sexliv.

Denne artikel er en oversættelse af artiklen Harriet Sohmers Zwerling på den engelske Wikipedia.