Welcome to Sue Prideaux's official website.

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, 2006

The website has been put together in the hope it will help scholars, researchers and just plain booklovers and art lovers to find the information they require quickly and simply. Sue Prideaux’s first biography Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream has been awarded the UK’s oldest literary prize for biography, the historic James Tait Black Memorial Prize. For more news of this, see the section Latest News which also covers the story of the theft and recovery of Munch’s paintings The Scream and Madonna.

Edvard Munch : Behind the Scream took five years to write. It was published to coincide with the show Munch by Himself at the Royal Academy, London. A month later, the book came out in the US where New York’s MoMA was showing Edvard Munch: the Modern Life of the Soul, the first US show of Munch’s work in thirty years. As well as Sue’s lectures and articles associated with these events, the site also features Sue’s two most recent novels, Magnetic North and Rude Mechanicals. You’ll find a forum, extracts from the books, reviews and interviews as well as information on Munch lectures, exhibitions and other things that might be interesting. The site will be updated from time to time, whenever there’s something new to add.

Ian McEwan, Ian Rankin and Sue Prideaux at the James Tait Black Memorial prize giving at Edinburgh University, July 2006. Ian McEwan won the fiction prize for his novel Saturday and Sue Prideaux won the biography prize for Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream.