Kathy Friedman

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Kathy Friedman is a South African-born Canadian writer, whose debut short story collection All the Shining People was published in 2022. [1] The stories in All the Shining People centre on characters in the Jewish community in Toronto, principally the South African Jewish community. [2]

The book was a shortlisted finalist for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award, [3] and the 2023 Trillium Book Award for English Prose. [4]

An MFA graduate of the University of Guelph, [5] she was previously shortlisted for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2011 for her short story "Under the 'I'". [6]

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