Sue Prideaux

Sue Prideaux is an Anglo-Norwegian novelist and biographer.

Life

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.

She studied as an art historian. She has written biographies of August Strindberg, Thore Heramb, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Paul Gauguin, as well as fiction.

Her work appeared in the New Statesman. ^[1]

Awards

Awards for Prideaux's writing

Year	Title	Award	Result	Ref.
2005	Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream	James Tait Black Memorial Prize	Winner	[2]
2012	Strindberg: A Life	Samuel Johnson Prize	Shortlist	[3]
2012	Strindberg: A Life	Duff Cooper Prize	Winner	[4]
2019	I Am Dynamite!	Hawthornden Prize	Winner	[5]
2024	Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin	Baillie Gifford Prize	Shortlist	[6]
2025	Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin	Duff Cooper Prize	Winner	[7]

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, Yale University Press, 2012
• I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche , Tim Duggan Books, 2018 ^{[8] [9] [10]}
• Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin , W. W. Norton, 2024 ^{[11] [12] [13] [14]}

References

1. "Sue Prideaux". New Statesman. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
2. "Previous winners". James Tait Black Memorial Prize website. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
3. 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.
4. "1956 - 2016". The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Archived from the original on 12 March 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
5. "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.
6. "Wild Thing by Sue Prideaux". Baillie Gifford Prize. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
7. "Latest Winner 2025". The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Retrieved 20 April 2025.
8. Sehgal, Parul (1 November 2018). "A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 17 June 2025.
9. Domino, Brian (2020). Prideaux, Sue (ed.). "Review". Journal of Nietzsche Studies. 51 (2): 281–287. doi:10.5325/jnietstud.51.2.0281. ISSN   0968-8005.
10. Monk, Ray (26 September 2018). "The agony and the destiny: Friedrich Nietzsche's descent into madness". New Statesman. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
11. Cain, Hamilton (10 May 2025). "Review: A spirited biography of 'odd,' 'visionary' Paul Gauguin". www.startribune.com. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
12. Szalai, Jennifer (28 May 2025). "A Splendid New Biography of Gauguin Separates the Man From the Myth". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 17 June 2025.
13. Higonnet, By Anne. "'Wild Thing' Review: The Sorcery of Paul Gauguin". WSJ. Retrieved 17 June 2025.
14. Beard, Nadia (29 August 2024). "Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin — man versus myth". Financial Times. Retrieved 17 June 2025.

External links

• Official Sue Prideaux site