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Poet Adam Aitken is this year’s recipient of this year’s $ 15,000 Patrick White Award.
Aitken is the author of several books of poetry including Archipelago (Vagabond Press), shortlisted in 2018 for the Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Prime Minister’s Literary Prize for Poetry, and Autobiography 2016 100 letters home (Vagabond Press), which was in contention for the 2017 ALS Gold Medal. He was also co-editor of the 2013 anthology Contemporary Asian Australian poets (Puncher & Wattmann).
Winning this year’s Patrick White Award, Aitken told the Age: “It gives me a lot more self-confidence. After the publication of my first book in 1985, I didn’t write for 10 years; I couldn’t repeat the momentum.
“I am very grateful to my comrades and colleagues who have dedicated their lives to poetry. And I hope that will keep the people who take my work and publish the poems.
Aitken’s next collection Revenant will be published by Giramondo in February 2022.
Patrick White created the annual literary prize using the proceeds of his 1973 Nobel Prize in Literature. The prize, for authors who “have made a significant but under-recognized contribution to Australian literature”, does not involve a submission process .
Last year’s Patrick White Award winner was novelist Gregory Day.
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