Elyse Friedman

Elyse Friedman (born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian writer who was raised in North York, Ontario. Her latest novel, The Opportunist, released November 29, 2022.

Education and career Elyse Friedman is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre. She has also won a Tom Hendry Award for her play The Cole Porter Suite (RBC Emerging Playwright Award, 2019).

Published works

Films and screenplays Suddenly Naked, 2001 A comedy about a 40-year-old novelist who falls in love with a writer who is much younger. Originally titled Show & Tell, Suddenly Naked appeared on film festival screens in places such as Toronto, Berlin, Vancouver and Hawaii. This movie earned six Genie Award nominations, including Best Picture, and won an award for best editing.

Novels and short stories Then Again, 1999 In Then Again, Friedman "Fashions characters who go to extraordinary lengths in their efforts to escape or recapture the past; as they discover the high price that accompanies the knowledge that neither of these things is possible." Then Again highlights the "limits of family loyalty and the necessity of choosing to live for oneself when the demand of others becomes intolerable." Friedman has said that she wrote this book because she "wanted to talk about the lingering effects on the children of holocaust survivors. There's a residue that remains and has an effect on children. [She] also wanted to explore the ideas of subjective memory – how different siblings can have different takes on the same environment." Then Again is a prominent book in bookstores and is published by Random House. Long Story Short, 2004 In Long Story Short, Friedman has put together a collection of short stories that "document the lives of six perverse and eccentric protagonists who share one common characteristic: living lives that have somehow gone off kilter" Long Story Short was published by Anansi. Waking Beauty, 2004 Long Story Short, a Novella & Stories, 2007 The Answer to Everything, 2014

The Opportunist, 2022

Poetry Know Your Monkey, 2003