Sue Prideaux
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Sue Prideaux, is an English novelist and biographer. She has strong links to Norway and her godmother was painted by Edvard Munch
, whose biography she later wrote under the title Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream. Prior to taking up writing she trained as an art historian in Florence, Paris and London.
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch...
, whose biography she later wrote under the title Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream. Prior to taking up writing she trained as an art historian in Florence, Paris and London.
Works
- Rude mechanicals, Abacus, 1997
- Magnetic North, Little, Brown, 1998
- Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream, Yale University Press, 2005
- Thore Heramb, Labyrinth, 2006