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Edvard Munch

The biography of the artist who created the most haunting icon of the twentieth century… read more

August Strindberg

Principally known, in Arthur Miller's words, as 'the mad inventor of modern theatre…read more

Literary Prizewinner

Sue Prideaux at the James Tait Black Memorial Prizegiving at Edinburgh, July 2006.read more

Magnetic North

Published by Little, Brown & Company, 1988 is Sue Prideaux's last novel…read more

Welcome to Sue Prideaux’s website. You will find information on her books and lectures and articles as well as news and reviews of exhibitions by Munch and other artists that interest her, the odd opera review, updates on the continuing saga of Oslo’s plans to relocate the Munch Museum and a great deal about August Strindberg… More

Spring 2012

March 2012, Strindberg: A Life to be published March 24, 10 a.m. Sue Prideaux to speak on her new biography at the Sunday … More

“In old age, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) had such a dread of silence that the radios in his house were never switched off. Often two played in one room, tuned to different stations. Best of all, he loved the noisy interference between stations when transmission ceased. What was it he no longer wanted to hear, he who had listened so intently to the private scream of the soul tormented by jealousy, grief, anger or fear of death and had portrayed it unforgettably in his art...” More

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