Suzanne O'Sullivan
Suzanne O'Sullivan is an Irish neurologist working in Britain who is the winner of the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize.[1] She won for her first book, It's All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness, published by Chatto & Windus in 2015. The book also won the Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize.[2]
O'Sullivan is from Dublin, and studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin. She is a consultant neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London.[3] O'Sullivan completed an MA in creative writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, in November 2015.[4]
She was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 in November, 2018, in the series The Life Scientific. [5] She appears regularly at events such as the Hay Literary Festival.[6]
In 2018, her second book “Brainstorm: Detective Stories from the World of Neurology”[7] was published by Chatto & Windus.
Also in 2018, she won the AITO Travel Writer of the Year award.[8]
In October 2019 ‘Brainstorm; Detective Stories from the World of Neurology’ was shortlisted for the Stockport Grammar School ‘Health Matters Book Prize’.[9]
References
- "'It's All in Your Head' by Suzanne O'Sullivan wins £30,000 Wellcome Book Prize 2016". wellcomebookprize.org. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- "It's All In Your Head (Winner, General Book Prize)". RSB.
- "Wellcome Prize won by book about psychosomatic illness". 25 April 2016 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- "Creative writing alumna wins Wellcome Book Prize 2016 — Birkbeck, University of London".
- "The Life Scientific - Detective of the mind Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk.
- "Suzanne O'Sullivan". Hay Festival.
- O'Sullivan, Suzanne. "Brainstorm". www.penguin.co.uk.
- "Travel PR". Travel PR.
- "Twitter". mobile.twitter.com. Retrieved 2019-10-01.