Sue Prideaux.
SUE PRIDEAUX
I AM DYNAMITE: A LIFE OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE (2018)
Winner of the Hawthornden Prize.
The Times Biography of the Year.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a hugely influential German philosopher. He saw humans as subject to competing wills, which he termed the ‘will to power’. At 44 he suffered a collapse and loss of his mental abilities, probably caused by dementia.
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Sue Prideaux is an Anglo Norwegian biographer. Her first book, a biography of the artist Edvard Munch, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her second biography, of the playwright August Strindberg, won the Duff Cooper Prize. Her biography of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche won the Hawthornden Prize.
