''I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche'' is a 2018 biography of
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher. He began his career as a classical philology, classical philologist, turning to philosophy early in his academic career. In 1869, aged 24, Nietzsche bec ...
written by
Sue Prideaux
Sue Prideaux is an Anglo-Norwegian novelist and biographer.
Life
Her grandmother was muse to the explorer Roald Amundsen and her godmother was painted by Edvard Munch, whose biography she later wrote under the title ''Edvard Munch: Behind the ...
and published by
Faber & Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, commonly known as Faber & Faber or simply Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, Margaret S ...
in 2018. It details the major events that occurred during his childhood through to his legacy.
It was ''
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its si ...
'' 2018 biography of the year,
[https://archive.today/20230314001621/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/books-of-the-year-2018-the-best-biography-and-memoir-bdmwzbwf8] as well as the winner of the
Hawthornden Prize
The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award given annually to a British, Irish or British-based author for a work of "imaginative literature" – including poetry, novels, history, biography and creative non-fiction – published in the pre ...
in 2019.
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Interview with the author on the New Books Network
2018 non-fiction books
Books about Friedrich Nietzsche
English-language non-fiction books
Faber & Faber books
Tim Duggan Books books
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