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Books by Sue Prideaux

Sue Prideaux is an award-winning biographer. Her first biography Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream (2005) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Strindberg: A Life (2012) won the Duff Cooper Prize, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche (2018) was awarded the Hawthornden Prize, longlisted for the Cundill History Prize and Rathbones Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Historical Writers’ Association Non-Fiction Crown and was the Times Biography of the Year. Her work has been translated into over 30 languages.

Interviews with Sue Prideaux

Interviews where books by Sue Prideaux were recommended

New Biographies

Among the new biographies coming out in 2025, the lives of literary figures have been particularly prominent, including new books about Robert Louis Stevenson, the Scottish adventure writer, and Shakespeare’s rival Christopher Marlowe, who was stabbed to death aged 29. Also popular are reconstructions of lives from the distant past that we know little about, including the first King of England and Fulvia, the first wife of Mark Antony.

The Best Nonfiction Books: The 2025 Duff Cooper Prize, recommended by Minoo Dinshaw

It’s a nonfiction book prize that values “style, rigour, argument, meatiness, readability, freshness, oddity and individuality,” says Minoo Dinshaw, author of Friends in Youth and one of this year’s judges. He introduces the six brilliant books that made the shortlist of this year’s Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize, from the history of post-World War II Italy to the disputes caused by the discovery of dinosaur fossils.  

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