Many congratulations to Sue Prideaux for winning the @duffcooperprize.bsky.social for her biography of Paul Gauguin.
And many thanks to Artemis Cooper and the other judges for the honour of being shortlisted.
Today's top story:
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux (Faber) has won the Duff Cooper Prize
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NEWS: Wild Thing by Sue Prideaux, a biography of French painter Paul Gauguin, wins the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. Here's our interview with prize judge Minoo Dinshaw about this year's fab shortlist:
‘He’s showing the two realities simultaneously, the mental reality and the physical reality and that’s just extraordinary.’
Listen to The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize 2025 winner Sue Prideaux interviewed by judge David Horspool on the @thetls.bsky.social podcast.
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Calling all UK publishers of great non-fiction 📚. Tell our judges about the best books you're bringing out this year. Nominations for the 70th #duffcooperprize 🎉 now open until 1 June 2025. Details here: duffcooperprize.org/about/how-to...
Both Sue Prideaux WILD THING winner @duffcooperprize.bsky.social and (see @fivebooks.com below) Minoo Dinshaw prize judge & author of FRIENDS IN YOUTH #history The English Civil War will be with us in May
Book tickets on line
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“‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light”
Sue Prideaux discusses her Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize-winning biography Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin in today’s @theguardian.com
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Join Sue Prideaux, along with The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize judges Artemis Cooper & Miles Young, over a glass of fizz at @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social as part of the Oxford Literary Festival.
4th April, book now:
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With us in the Cotswolds in May Sue Prideaux winner 2025 @duffcooperprize.bsky.social for Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social
Buy book @borzoibookshop.bsky.social
Book talk online
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Reading this at the moment and loving it. Well deserved.