‘A heroic rehabilitation’ – The Times

Sue Prideaux is an Anglo-Norwegian biographer and novelist. She writes for the TLS, The Economist, The Art Newspaper, The New Statesman and The Spectator. Her first biography, Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream (2005), won the James Tait Black Prize. Strindberg: a Life (2012) won the Duff Cooper Prize. The critically-acclaimed I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche (2018) won the Hawthornden Prize. As an art specialist she has been a consultant to Sotheby’s and a dramaturge for plays by Strindberg and Ibsen. Her latest book Wild Thing (2024) was longlisted in Non-fiction categories for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Women’s Prize. Sue will talk about this fascinating myth-busting re-examination of the complex and controversial post-impressionist, Paul Gauguin. 

Photo of Sue Prideaux: Douglas Fry