About Sue Prideaux
Born 1946. Sue Prideaux is a British novelist, biographer, writer and art historian.
Sue Prideaux (born 1946) 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.
Awards
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 Friedrich Nietzsche, Faber & Faber, 2018 Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, W. W. Norton, 2024
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British writer
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Sue Prideaux was born on 1 June 1946 in London.
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