Suzanne O'Sullivan

Suzanne O'Sullivan is an Irish neurologist working in Britain.[1]

O'Sullivan is from Dublin, and studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin.[2] 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 is the winner of the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize. 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.

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. In 2018, she won the AITO Travel Writer of the Year award.[8]

The book Brainstorm: Detective Stories from the World of Neurology talks about the functions, the effects, and the mysteries of the brain. Stories about actual people with actual experiences on neurological (or brain) "problems" are discussed through the story, to provides better understanding of the complex, and the importance, of one's brain.[9]

In 2021 she published The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness which was shortlisted for that year's Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize.[10]

References
  1. "'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.
  2. "Suzanne O'Sullivan | Nour Foundation". www.nourfoundation.com. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  3. "Wellcome Prize won by book about psychosomatic illness". 25 April 2016 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  4. "Creative writing alumna wins Wellcome Book Prize 2016 — Birkbeck, University of London".
  5. "The Life Scientific - Detective of the mind Dr Suzanne O'Sullivan - BBC Sounds". www.bbc.co.uk.
  6. "Suzanne O'Sullivan". Hay Festival.
  7. O'Sullivan, Suzanne. "Brainstorm". www.penguin.co.uk.
  8. "Travel PR". Travel PR.
  9. Cooke, Rachel (8 April 2018). "Unravelling the mysteries of the brain: Suzanne O'Sullivan, neuro detective". The Guardian. p. 1.
  10. "Royal Society Science Book Prize, sponsored by Insight Investment". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 29 September 2021.


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