Sue Prideaux

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Sue Prideaux (born June 1, 1946 ) is a Norwegian-British writer.

Life

Sue Prideaux has family roots in Norway , where she mainly lives. Her great aunt, Kiss Bennett, had a long love affair with Roald Amundsen , her great uncle Thomas Olsen promoted Edvard Munch . She studied art and worked as an art historian in Florence , Paris and London . Her literary work includes biographies and novels.

Prideaux is an expert on the work of Edvard Munch; she wrote articles and lectured on him. In her Munch biography Behind the Scream , she talks about her godmother, who was portrayed by Munch. The book, in which Prideaux works with Munch's diary entries, working out his intellectual influences and dealing with his fears, was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize .

Her biography about August Strindberg , published in 2012, was well received and received the Duff Cooper Prize ; she was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction.

In 2019 Sue Prideaux received the Hawthornden Prize for I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche . At the award ceremony, the Chair of the Hawthornden Prize Committee, Dame Hermione Lee, said: “The jury members all agreed that Friedrich Nietzsche is a difficult subject and that this great biography completely changes the previously widely accepted view of Nietzsche. His characterization in the work is magnificent and extremely astute. The wonderful expression contains sharp twists with excellent stylistic surprises. The plot is lively and gripping, extraordinary and often surprisingly funny. "

Works (selection)

  • Rude mechanicals . London: Abacus, 1997
  • Magnetic North . London: Little, Brown, 1998
  • Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream . Cumberland: Yale University Press, 2005
  • Alexander Adams, ruins and landscapes . Exhibition catalog. Text Sue Prideaux. Chester: Golconda Fine Art Books, 2007 ISBN 978-0-9550843-3-1
  • Thore Heramb . Oslo: Labyrinth, 2006
  • Strindberg: A Life . Cumberland: Yale University Press, 2012
  • I am dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche . London: Faber, 2018, ISBN 978-0-571-33621-0

literature

  • Jonathan Derbyshire: The Immoralist , Review, in: Financial Times , October 13, 2018, p. L&A 10

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ She plays Amundsen's great love. In: Newsbeezer. February 17, 2019, accessed December 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Jay Ruzesky: In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage . Nightwood Editions, 2015, ISBN 978-0-88971-282-9 , pp. 59 .
  3. ↑ Tom Rosenthal, The Independent On Sunday - Edvard Munch review. In: sueprideaux.com. Retrieved December 31, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ Sue Prideaux. In: klett-cotta.de. Klett-Cotta Verlag, accessed on December 31, 2019 .
  5. ^ Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream. In: publishersweekly.com. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  6. ^ Sue Prideaux wins the 2019 Hawthornden Prize for Literature Faber and Faber, accessed July 14, 2019
  7. ↑ Thore Heramb, Norwegian painter (1916–2014), see no: Thore Heramb
personal data
SURNAME Prideaux, Sue
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1946