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