Sue Prideaux Explained

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!		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

External links

• Official Sue Prideaux site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Previous winners . 26 August 2013 . James Tait Black Memorial Prize website . 4 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304002038/http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/events/tait-black/winners . live .
2. News: Alison Flood . 5 October 2012 . Six books to 'change our view of the world' on shortlist for non-fiction prize . . 5 October 2012 . 6 October 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181006075636/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/05/six-magisterial-shortlist-samuel-johnson-prize . live .
3. Web site: 1956 - 2016 . 2023-03-12 . The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize . en-US . 12 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230312000358/https://duffcooperprize.org/1956-2016/ . live .
4. Web site: 2019-07-11 . Sue Prideaux wins the 2019 Hawthornden Prize for Literature . 2023-03-12 . Faber . en-US . 27 September 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220927004343/https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/sue-prideaux-wins-the-2019-hawthornden-prize-for-literature/ . live .