It was an incredible honour to interview an author I have been following for a long time, and itching to get on the show. Sue Prideaux is an acclaimed Anglo‑Norwegian biographer and novelist. Her works include I Am Dynamite!, a biography of Friedrich Nietzsche I read and reviewed last year, and more recently Wild Thing, a biography of French artist Paul Gauguin. I Am Dynamite! was named The Times Biography of the Year for 2018, and won the Hawthornden Prize for ‘imaginative literature’, and Wild Thing was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for non-fiction, and won the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize for non-fiction. It’s also fair to say that I absolutely loved them both, so I strongly recommend you go out and pick yourselves up copies. 

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Sue Prideaux’s four books were:

• The Story of Babar The Little Elephant, Jean de Brunoff (1934)

• The Summer Book, Tove Jansson (1972)

• Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbon (1932)

• Shelley: The Pursuit, Richard Holmes (1974)