Sue Prideaux's first biography Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream (2005) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Strindberg: A Life (2012) won the Duff Cooper Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche (2018) was awarded the Hawthornden Prize and was The Times Biography of the Year. Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin (2024) won the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize and the American Library in Paris award, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
