Description
The Times Biography of the Year
Winner of the Hawthornden Prize 2019
Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Prize 2019
Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019
Longlisted for the Cundhill History Prize 2019
'Outstanding.' The Sunday Times
'A revelation.' Guardian
'Wonderful.' The Times
'Riveting.' New Statesman
Friedrich Nietzsche's work rocked the foundation of Western thinking and continues to permeate our culture, high and low - yet he is one of history's most misunderstood philosophers. Sue Prideaux's myth-shattering book brings readers into the world of a brilliant, eccentric and deeply troubled man, illuminating the events and people that shaped his life and work. I Am Dynamite! is the essential biography for anyone seeking to understand Nietzsche, the philosopher who foresaw - and sought solutions to - our own troubled times.
The Times Biography of the Year: Sue Prideaux's award-winning portrait of philosophy's greatest iconoclast, Friedrich Nietzsche.
About the Author
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 Nietzsche (2018) was awarded the Hawthornden Prize, longlisted for the Cundhill History Prize and Rathbones Folio Prize, shortlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Non-Fiction Crown and was The Times Biography of the Year.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571336227
Author Sue Prideaux
Format Paperback
Page Count 464
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 395g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 28mm
