Graeme Friedman is a clinical psychologist and an award-winning writer whose short stories have appeared in anthologies published internationally. His book ''The Fossil Artist'' (Jacana, 2010), a novel about crime, authenticity, what it means to be human and how we come to love, was shortlisted for the

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best ...

(Best First Book). He is also the author of the critically acclaimed ''The Piano War'' (David Philip, 2003), an unbelievable yet true story of love and survival set against the horrors of

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, and of ''Madiba’s Boys'', a non-fiction book on South African football, politics and history, published in South Africa (New Africa Books, 2001) and the United Kingdom (Comerford & Miller, 2001) with a foreword by

Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...

. ''Madiba’s Boys'' was a Top Ten Sports Book in the United Kingdom. Friedman has co-edited a collection of prose and poetry entitled ''A Writer in Stone'' (David Philip, 1998), and has written on the topics of torture and the political trial, based on his experience as a trauma counsellor and an expert witness for the defence - mostly

ANC The African National Congress (ANC) is a social-democratic political party in South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when the first post-apartheid election installe ...

liberation fighters - during political trials of the apartheid era. He has appeared at writers’ festivals and workshops in South Africa and, more recently, in Sydney, Australia, where he now lives with his wife and their three children.

Bibliography

;Books # ''It Doesn't Have To Be So Hard: the Secrets to Finding and Keeping Intimacy'', forthcoming

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, 2012. Co-written with Joanne Fedler (''Secret Mothers' Business''). ;Short Stories # "A Spy in the House of Art", published in Danish translation in Opbrud, edited by Chris van Wyk (AKS/Hjulet, 2000) and in English in ''Post-Traumatic'', edited by Chris van Wyk (Botsotso Publishing, 2003). # "Marilyn’s Dress", awarded first prize in the ''herStoriA'' writing competition, published in ''Running Towards Us: New Writing from South Africa'', edited by Isabel Balseiro (Heinemann, 2000). # "Patrick’s Deli", published in ''Electronic Sesame III'' (Barefoot Press, 1998). # "The Beggar in the Bookshop", published in ''A Writer in Stone'', edited by Graeme Friedman & Roy Blumenthal (David Philip, 1998). # "The Demobbing", published in ''Jewish Writing in the Contemporary World: South Africa'', edited by Claudia Braude (Nebraska University Press, 2001). # "The Finger of God", published in ''At the Rendezvous of Victory and Other Stories'', edited by Andries Oliphant (Kwela Books, 1999).

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