Peter-Adrian Altini
Peter-Adrian Altini is a novelist, screenwriter and university lecturer whose short stories have been published in the Fish anthology (2019), Iron Horse Literary Review (2021), Storgy (2021) and Adda Literary Magazine (2023). He was the winner of the prestigious Ernst van Heerden Creative Writing Award and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. He has written the limited TV series It could have been us optioned by Mainstreet Pictures and is currently seeking representation for a completed novel, Salt water pool boy. He says of his story “Hanna. With two N’s”: “I was inspired to write this story after reading about the Aversion Project, a medical torture programme in South Africa during apartheid which identified gay soldiers in the South African Defence Force and forced them to submit to ‘curing’ their homosexuality. The doctor in charge later fled to Canada.”
Short.Sharp.Stories anthology Power: interview with Peter-Adrian Altini, author of "Ndiyindoda!"
2025-08-04"Ultimately, I think all stories are fundamentally stories of power. Power is at the very heart of drama and conflict. There are those who have it and those who want it. I can’t think of a short story I have written that didn’t explore power in some way. The most interesting power struggles are those that characters experience inside themselves."
Short.Sharp.Stories anthology Fluid: interview with Peter-Adrian Altini, author of “Hanna. With two N’s”
2023-07-18“I was inspired to write this story after reading about the Aversion Project, a medical torture programme in South Africa during apartheid which identified gay soldiers in the South African Defence Force and forced them to submit to ‘curing’ their homosexuality. The doctor in charge later fled to Canada.”