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
[edit]| Year | Title | Award | Result | Ref. |
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| 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Previous winners". James Tait Black Memorial Prize website. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "1956 - 2016". The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Archived from the original on 12 March 2023. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
- ^ "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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