Sue Prideaux

Sue Prideaux is an Anglo-Norwegian writer. Her grandmother was muse to the explorer Roald Amundsen and her godmother was painted by Edvard Munch, whose biography she later wrote under the title Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream.

Awards

Awards for Prideaux's writing
Year Title Award Result Ref.
2005 Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream James Tait Black Memorial Prize Winner [1]
2012 Strindberg: A Life Samuel Johnson Prize Shortlist [2]
2012 Strindberg: A Life Duff Cooper Prize Winner [3]
2019 I Am Dynamite! Hawthornden Prize Winner [4]

Works

  • Rude mechanicals, Abacus, 1997
  • Magnetic North, Little, Brown, 1998
  • Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream, Yale University Press, 2005
  • Thore Heramb, Labyrinth, 2006
  • Strindberg: A Life, 2012
  • I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche, 2018
  • Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, 2024

References

  1. ^ "Previous winners". James Tait Black Memorial Prize website. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  2. ^ Alison Flood (5 October 2012). "Six books to 'change our view of the world' on shortlist for non-fiction prize". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 6 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
  3. ^ "1956 - 2016". The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Archived from the original on 12 March 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Sue Prideaux wins the 2019 Hawthornden Prize for Literature". Faber. 11 July 2019. Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 12 March 2023.


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