Sontag to live on in Sarajevo
Sarajevo authorities will name a street after writer Susan Sontag, who helped the city’s residents during the 1992-95 Bosnian war.
Sontag, 71, died Tuesday in New York from complications of leukemia.
“The city of Sarajevo [and] its citizens express their sincere thanks to an author and a humanist who actively participated in the creation of the history of Sarajevo and Bosnia,” said a statement Thursday from the office of Mayor Muhidin Hamamdzic.
Sontag made numerous visits during the war and lobbied for the end of the siege of the Bosnian capital. In 1993, Sontag and a group of actors and directors staged a production of “Waiting for Godot” at the Youth Theater.
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