Andrew Kaufman is a Canadian

Canada

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 writer

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, film director

Film director

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, and radio producer.

His short film Aberistiwith was screened at festivals across Europe and Canada. Andrew Kaufman is also a revolving cast member of the Perpetual Motion Roadshow, and now works as a producer for CBC Radio in Toronto.

His novella All My Friends Are Superheroes (2003) is a humorous love story between a normal man and a superheroine, The Perfectionist, set in the Toronto

Toronto

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 superhero

Superhero

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 milieu, in which the bizarre characters (The Seeker, The Inverse, BusinessMan etc.) actually personify different human types; it has been translated into Norwegian

Norwegian language

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 (2006), Italian

Italian language

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 (2007), French

French language

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 (translated by Anna Rozen

Anna Rozen

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) (2007), German

German language

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 (2008) and Spanish

Spanish language

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(2010).

He has also written a longer novel titled, "The Waterproof Bible", published by Telegram in 2009.
His novella The Tiny Wife was published in 2010 by Madras Press.