Sue Prideaux

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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.

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Awards

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

Works

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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.