The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold Medal) is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for "an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year."[1] From 1928 to 1974 it was awarded by the Australian Literature Society, then from 1983 by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, when the two organisations were merged.

Award winners

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2020s

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2010s

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2000s

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1990s

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1980s

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1970s

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1960s

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1950s

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1940s

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1930s

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1920s

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Shortlisted works

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Year Author name Work nominated Result Ref
2024 Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Winner [2]
Jordie Albiston Frank Shortlisted [43]
Stuart Barnes Like to the Lark Shortlisted [43]
Katherine Brabon Body Friend Shortlisted [43]
J. M. Coetzee The Pole and Other Stories Shortlisted [43]
Omar Sakr Non-Essential Work Shortlisted [43]
Sara M. Saleh The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat Shortlisted [43]
2023 Debra Dank We Come With This Place Winner [44]
Robbie Arnott Limberlost Shortlisted [3]
Fiona Kelly McGregor Iris Shortlisted [3]
Gavin Yuan Gao At the Altar of Touch Shortlisted [3]
Adam Ouston Waypoints Shortlisted [3]
Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella ART Shortlisted [3]
2022 Andy Jackson Human Looking Winner [4]
Emily Bitto Wild Abandon Shortlisted [45]
John Kinsella Pushing Back Shortlisted [4]
S. J. Norman Permafrost Shortlisted [4]
Elfie Shiosaki Homecoming Shortlisted [4]
Maria Takolander Trigger Warning Shortlisted [4]
2021 Nardi Simpson Song of the Crocodile Winner
Robbie Arnott The Rain Heron Shortlisted [46]
Ronnie Scott The Adversary Shortlisted [46]
Ellen van Neerven Throat Shortlisted [46]
Luke Best Cadaver Dog Shortlisted [46]
Laura Jean McKay The Animals in That Country Shortlisted [46]
2020 Charmaine Papertalk Green Nganajungu Yagu Winner [47]
Jordie Albiston Element Shortlisted [48]
Favel Parrett There Was Still Love Shortlisted [48]
Carrie Tiffany Exploded View Shortlisted [48]
Charlotte Wood The Weekend Shortlisted [48]
2019 Pam Brown click here for what we do Winner [49]
Luke Beesley Aqua Spinach Shortlisted [50]
Laura Elizabeth Woollett Beautiful Revolutionary Shortlisted [50]
Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella False Claims of Colonial Thieves Shortlisted [50]
Jamie Marina Lau Pink Mountain on Locust Island Shortlisted [50]
Gail Jones The Death of Noah Glass Shortlisted [50]
2018 Shastra Deo The Agonist Winner [51]
Peter Carey A Long Way from Home Shortlisted [51]
Eva Hornung The Last Garden Shortlisted [51]
Sofie Laguna The Choke Shortlisted [51]
Steven Lang Hinterland Shortlisted [51]
Gerald Murnane Border Districts Shortlisted [51]
2017 Zoe Morrison Music and Freedom Winner [52]
Steven Amsterdam The Easy Way Out Shortlisted [53]
Georgia Blain Between a Wolf and a Dog Shortlisted [53]
Peter Boyle Ghostspeaking Shortlisted [53]
Heather Rose The Museum of Modern Love Shortlisted [53]
Rajith Savanadasa Ruins Shortlisted [53]
2016 Brenda Niall Mannix Winner [54]
James Bradley Clade Shortlisted [54]
Tegan Bennett Daylight Six Bedrooms Shortlisted [54]
Drusilla Modjeska Second Half First Shortlisted [54]
2015 Jennifer Maiden Drones and Phantoms Winner [55]
Joan London The Golden Age Shortlisted [55]
David Malouf Earth Hour Shortlisted [55]
Favel Parrett When the Night Comes Shortlisted [55]
Inga Simpson Nest Shortlisted [55]
2014 Alexis Wright The Swan Book Winner [56]
Eleanor Limprecht What Was Left Shortlisted [56]
Luke Carman An Elegant Young Man Shortlisted [56]
Hannah Kent Burial Rites Shortlisted [56]
Christos Tsiolkas Barracuda Shortlisted [56]
Alex Miller Coal Creek Shortlisted [56]
2013 Michelle de Kretser Questions of Travel Winner [57]
Jessie Cole Darkness on the Edge of Town Shortlisted [57]
Robert Drewe Montebello Shortlisted [57]
Christopher Koch Lost Voices Shortlisted [57]
P. A. O’Reilly The Fine Colour of Rust Shortlisted [57]
2012 Gillian Mears Foal's Bread Winner [58]
Steven Amsterdam What the Family Needed Shortlisted [58]
Christopher Edwards People of Earth Shortlisted [58]
Diane Fahey The Wing Collection: New & Selected poems Shortlisted [58]
Favel Parrett Past The Shallows Shortlisted [58]
Anna Funder All That I Am Shortlisted [58]
Gail Jones Five Bells Shortlisted [58]
Alex Miller Autumn Laing Shortlisted [58]
Elliot Perlman The Street Sweeper Shortlisted [58]
Gig Ryan Gig Ryan: New and Selected Poems Shortlisted [58]
Jaya Savige Surface to Air Shortlisted [58]
2011 Kim Scott That Deadman Dance Winner
Peter Boyle Apocrypha Shortlisted
Peter Goldsworthy Gravel Shortlisted
Kirsten Tranter The Legacy Shortlisted
Chris Womersley Bereft Shortlisted
2010 David Malouf Ransom Winner
Emily Ballou The Darwin Poems Shortlisted
Steven Carroll The Lost Life Shortlisted
Eva Hornung Dog Boy Shortlisted
Cate Kennedy The World Beneath Shortlisted
2008 Michelle de Kretser The Lost Dog Winner
J. S. Harry Not Finding Wittgenstein Shortlisted
Rhyll McMaster Feather Man Shortlisted
David Malouf Typewriter Music Shortlisted
Alex Miller Landscape of Farewell Shortlisted

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "ALS Gold Medal". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Wright wins 2024 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 8 July 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e f ""Dank's 'We Come with This Place' wins ALS Gold Medal"". Books+Publishing. 5 July 2023. Retrieved 6 July 2023.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Jackson's 'Human Looking; wins ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Simpson wins 2021 ALS Gold Medal for 'Song of the Crocodile'". Books+Publishing. 21 July 2021. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Papertalk Green wins 2020 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Brown wins 2019 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 3 July 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Deo wins 2018 ALS Gold Medal | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  9. ^ "Morrison wins ALS Gold Medal". Books + Publishing. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  10. ^ "Brenda Niall's life of Archbishop Mannix wins Australia's oldest literary prize" by Jason Steger, The Age, 6 July 2016
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj "ALS Gold Medal - Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
  12. ^ "Imaginary lives of the defeated in the realm of alienation", The Canberra Times, 21 February 1990, p33
  13. ^ Austlit – The Burnt Ones by Patrick White
  14. ^ Austlit – The Rush That Never Ended by Geoffrey Blainey
  15. ^ Austlit – Twenty-Three : Stories by John Morrison
  16. ^ Austlit – Masters in Israel by Vincent Buckley
  17. ^ Austlit – Poems of Discovery by William Hart Smith
  18. ^ "Papers of Randolph Stow" National Library of Australia
  19. ^ Austlit – A Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd
  20. ^ Austlit – The Tree of Man by Patrick White
  21. ^ Australian Classics : 50 Great Writers and Their Celebrated Work by Jane Gleeson-White, p61
  22. ^ "Literary Award to T.A.G. Hungerford" The Canberra Times, 11 February 1954, p3
  23. ^ "Crouch Prize for Literature to R. Ingamells" The Age, 7 April 1952, p5
  24. ^ The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature p129
  25. ^ "News of the Day" The Age, 3 November 1949, p2
  26. ^ Note wrong title, see [1] letter from Nettie Palmer
  27. ^ "Melbourne Author Wins Gold Medal" The Argus, 10 December 1948, p10
  28. ^ "Literature Prize" The Age, 19 November 1943, p2
  29. ^ "Medal for Author of Happy Valley" The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 1941, p13
  30. ^ "About People" The Age, 19 February 1941, p20
  31. ^ "Prize for Best Novel" The Argus, 19 March 1940, p1
  32. ^ "Literary Gold Medal : Award to Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald" The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 February 1940, p16
  33. ^ "Seaforth Mackenzie Wins 1937 Literature Prize" The Telegraph, 22 November 1938, p8
  34. ^ "Return to Coolami : Medal for Best Novel" The Argus, 21 September 1937, p11
  35. ^ "Gold Medal – Australian Literary Society" The Canberra Times, 31 October 1936, p2
  36. ^ "Best Novel of 1934" The Argus, 22 October 1935, p6
  37. ^ "Australian Literature : Society's Annual 'Drama Night'" The Age, 6 October 1934, p21
  38. ^ "In and About the City – Literature Award" The Courier-Mail, 10 November 1933, p10
  39. ^ "Literature Society's Gold Medal" The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 July 1932, p3
  40. ^ "Best Novel of 1930" The Argus, 16 June 1931, p6
  41. ^ "Australian Novel" The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 March 1930, p6
  42. ^ "Australian Literature Society" The Age, 8 October 1929, p13
  43. ^ a b c d e f "ALS Gold Medal 2024 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
  44. ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2023 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 30 May 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  45. ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2022 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 7 June 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  46. ^ a b c d e "ALS Gold Medal 2021 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  47. ^ "Papertalk Green wins 2020 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  48. ^ a b c d "ALS Gold Medal 2020 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  49. ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2019 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  50. ^ a b c d e "ALS Gold Medal 2019 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  51. ^ a b c d e f "ALS Gold Medal 2018 shortlist announced | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  52. ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2017 shortlist announced". Books + Publishing. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  53. ^ a b c d e "ALS Gold Medal 2017 shortlist announced". Books + Publishing. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  54. ^ a b c d Austlit – 2016 ALS Gold Medal
  55. ^ a b c d e "ALS Gold Medal 2015 shortlist announced", Books + Publishing, 5 May 2015
  56. ^ a b c d e f "ALS Gold Medal 2014 shortlist announced", Books + Publishing, 27 February 2014
  57. ^ a b c d e "2013 ALS Gold Medal Shortlist", ANZ LitLovers, 19 March 2013
  58. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Austlit – 2012 ALS Gold Medal
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