Welcome to Sue Prideaux’s website. You will find information on her books and events. September 2024 saw the publication of Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin. Buy the book here.
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
We are pleased to announce that Wild Thing was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024. See here for an interview with Sue, and here for Sue reading an extract from the book.
See here for Faber’s Wild Thing announcement.
See photo gallery for pictures from Sue’s research trips to Polynesia. For upcoming talks, events and literary festivals etc see Sue Prideaux’s author page on faber.co.uk.
Sue Prideaux at the Faber Spring Party presenting Wild Thing, March 2024.
Sue Prideaux outside Blackwell’s in Oxford, October 2024
Previous books
See here for reviews of I Am Dynamite!
We are delighted to announce that I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche has won the Hawthornden Prize, an exceptional honour in the prize’s centenary year. Furthermore I Am Dynamite! has been long listed for the Cundill History Prize, the Rathbones Folio Prize, 2019 and shortlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association non-fiction Crown.
I Am Dynamite! was The Times Biography of the Year, 2018.
For recent writing by Sue, see here.
The Iranian edition is the latest of 24 foreign editions of ‘I Am Dynamite!’ (January 2021)
Assorted book jackets
SP and Karl Ove Knausgaard in conversation at the British Museum, 10th May 2019. See here to watch the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssgDsIm2dhA
Paperback edition of ‘Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream’, released May 2019.
The essential biography for anyone seeking to understand the philosopher who foresaw – and sought solutions to – our own troubled times.
“Witty, terribly clever and steeped in the wild, doomed peculiarities of 19th-century Germania, it is a tremendous and reformative biography of a man whom popular history has perhaps done a disservice.” Hugo Rifkind, The Times
Published October 2018
Strindberg: A Life
While Sue Prideaux was writing Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream she became increasingly fascinated by Munch’s friend August Strindberg.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream
The biography of the man who created one of the most haunting images of all time.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.