Author Susan Sontag has been named the recipient of a “Peace Prize” by the German publishing industry. “In a world of falsified images and mutilated truth, she has stood up for the dignity of free thinking,” according to the German Publishers and Booksellers Association. The award comes in response to negative publicity Sontag received in the U.S. for an article she wrote in The New Yorker shortly after September 11, 2001, in which she accused the U.S. government of manipulating the public in order to wage unjust wars.