title: Sue Prideaux
text: # 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
  
  Awards for Prideaux's writing :
  
  | Year | Title | Award | Result |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 2005 | Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream | James Tait Black Memorial Prize | Winner |
  | 2012 | Strindberg: A Life | Samuel Johnson Prize | Shortlist |
  | 2012 | Strindberg: A Life | Duff Cooper Prize | Winner |
  | 2019 | I Am Dynamite! | Hawthornden Prize | Winner |
  
  ## 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
  