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.
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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. |
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