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 and distinctions
- 2005 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Munch
- 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlist, Strindberg
- 2012 Duff Cooper Prize Strindberg
- 2019 Hawthornden Prize Nietzsche
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
