Adam Aitken, One Hundred Letters Home was published in the collection

was published in the collection On Being Human in 1990

it is part of Asia

Anne Elder Award 2023 judges' comments

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Adam Aitken, One Hundred Letters Home was published in the collectionWinner of the 2021 Patrick White Literary Award Beautifully written, tightly structured, One Hundred Letters Home is as profoundly moving as it is intelligent and playful. There is the experience here of time's shifting nature, the way memory, need and desire work across the layers of narrative that shape a life, told, untold, remembered, misremembered and forgotten. Memory's work rolls through Aitken's perfectly measured storytelling, vivid and