ALS_Gold_Medal
ALS Gold Medal
Annual literary award in Australia
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.
2020s
- 2023: Debra Dank – We Come With This Place[2]
- 2022: Andy Jackson – Human Looking[3]
- 2021: Nardi Simpson – Song of the Crocodile[4]
- 2020: Charmaine Papertalk Green — Nganajungu Yagu[5]
2010s
- 2019: Pam Brown — click here for what we do[6]
- 2018: Shastra Deo – The Agonist[7]
- 2017: Zoe Morrison – Music and Freedom[8]
- 2016: Brenda Niall – Mannix[9]
- 2015: Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms[10]
- 2014: Alexis Wright – The Swan Book[10]
- 2013: Michelle de Kretser – Questions of Travel[10]
- 2012: Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread[10]
- 2011: Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance[10]
- 2010: David Malouf – Ransom[10]
2000s
- 2009: Christos Tsiolkas – The Slap[10]
- 2008: Michelle de Kretser – The Lost Dog[10]
- 2007: Alexis Wright – Carpentaria[10]
- 2006: Gregory Day – The Patron Saint of Eels[10]
- 2005: Gail Jones – Sixty Lights[10]
- 2004: Laurie Duggan – Mangroves[10]
- 2003: Kate Jennings – Moral Hazard[10]
- 2002: Richard Flanagan – Gould's Book of Fish[10]
- 2001: Rodney Hall – The Day We Had Hitler Home[10]
- 2000: Drusilla Modjeska – Stravinsky's Lunch[10]
1990s
- 1999: Murray Bail – Eucalyptus[10]
- 1998: James Cowan – A Mapmaker's Dream[10]
- 1997: Robert Dessaix – Night Letters[10]
- 1996: Amanda Lohrey – Camille's Bread[10]
- 1995: Helen Demidenko – The Hand That Signed the Paper[10]
- 1994: Louis Nowra – Radiance and The Temple[10]
- 1993: Elizabeth Riddell – Selected Poems[10]
- 1992: Rodney Hall – The Second Bridegroom[10]
- 1991: Elizabeth Jolley – Cabin Fever[10]
- 1990: Peter Porter – Possible Worlds[10]
1980s
- 1989: Frank Moorhouse – Forty-Seventeen[10]
- 1988: Brian Matthews – Louisa[10]
- 1987: Alan Wearne – The Nightmarkets[10]
- 1986: Thea Astley – Beachmasters[10]
- 1985: David Ireland – Archimedes and the Seagle[10]
- 1984: Les Murray – The People's Otherworld : Poems[10]
- 1983: David Malouf – Child's Play; Fly Away Peter[10]
- 1982: No Award[10]
- 1981: No Award[10]
- 1980: No Award[10]
1970s
- 1975–79: No Award
- 1974: David Malouf – Neighbours in a Thicket[11]
- 1973: Francis Webb
- 1972: Alex Buzo – Macquarie (play)
- 1971: Colin Badger
- 1970: Manning Clark
1960s
- 1966: A. D. Hope
- 1965: Patrick White – The Burnt Ones[12]
- 1964: Geoffrey Blainey – The Rush that Never Ended[13]
- 1963: John Morrison – Twenty-Three : Stories[14]
- 1962: Vincent Buckley – Masters in Israel[15]
- 1960: William Hart-Smith – Poems of Discovery[16]
1950s
- 1959: Randolph Stow – To the Islands[17]
- 1957: Martin Boyd – A Difficult Young Man[18]
- 1955: Patrick White – The Tree of Man[19]
- 1954: Mary Gilmore – Fourteen Men[20]
- 1952: Tom Hungerford – The Ridge and the River : A Novel[21]
- 1951: Rex Ingamells – The Great South Land : An Epic Poem[22]
- 1950: Jon Cleary – Just Let Me Be[23]
1940s
- 1949: Percival Serle – Dictionary of Australian Biography[24][25]
- 1948: Herz Bergner – Between Sky and Sea[26]
- 1942: Kylie Tennant – The Battlers[27]
- 1941: Patrick White – Happy Valley[28]
- 1940: William Baylebridge – This Vital Flesh[29]
1930s
- 1939: Xavier Herbert – Capricornia[30]
- 1938: R. D. FitzGerald – Moonlight Acre[31]
- 1937: Seaforth Mackenzie – The Young Desire It[32]
- 1936: Eleanor Dark – Return to Coolami[33]
- 1935: Winifred Birkett – Earth's Quality[34]
- 1934: Eleanor Dark – Prelude to Christopher[35]
- 1933: G. B. Lancaster (Edith J. Lyttleton) – Pageant[36]
- 1932: Leonard Mann – Flesh in Armour[37]
- 1931: Frank Dalby Davison – Man-Shy[38]
- 1930: Vance Palmer – The Passage[39]
1920s
2023[42]
- Debra Dank, We Come With This Place[2]
- Robbie Arnott, Limberlost
- Fiona Kelly McGregor, Iris
- Gavin Yuan Gao, At the Altar of Touch
- Adam Ouston, Waypoints
- Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella, ART
2022[43]
- Emily Bitto, Wild Abandon
- Andy Jackson, Human Looking[3]
- John Kinsella, Pushing Back
- S. J. Norman, Permafrost
- Elfie Shiosaki, Homecoming
- Maria Takolander, Trigger Warning
2021[44]
- Robbie Arnott, The Rain Heron
- Luke Best, Cadaver Dog
- Laura Jean McKay, The Animals in That Country
- Ronnie Scott, The Adversary
- Nardi Simpson, Song of the Crocodile[4]
- Ellen van Neerven, Throat
2020[45]
- Jordie Albiston, Element
- Charmaine Papertalk Green, Nganajungu Yagu[46]
- Favel Parrett, There Was Still Love
- Carrie Tiffany, Exploded View
- Charlotte Wood, The Weekend
2019[47]
- Luke Beesley, Aqua Spinach
- Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Beautiful Revolutionary
- Pam Brown, click here for what we do[6]
- Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella, False Claims of Colonial Thieves
- Jamie Marina Lau, Pink Mountain on Locust Island
- Gail Jones, The Death of Noah Glass
2018[48]
- Peter Carey, A Long Way from Home
- Shastra Deo, The Agonist
- Eva Hornung, The Last Garden
- Sofie Laguna, The Choke
- Steven Lang, Hinterland
- Gerald Murnane, Border Districts
2017[49]
- Steven Amsterdam, The Easy Way Out
- Georgia Blain, Between a Wolf and a Dog
- Peter Boyle, Ghostspeaking
- Zoe Morrison, Music and Freedom
- Heather Rose, The Museum of Modern Love
- Rajith Savanadasa, Ruins
2016[50]
- James Bradley, Clade
- Tegan Bennett Daylight, Six Bedrooms
- Drusilla Modjeska, Second Half First
- Brenda Niall, Mannix
2015[51]
- Joan London, The Golden Age
- Jennifer Maiden, Drones and Phantoms
- David Malouf, Earth Hour
- Favel Parrett, When the Night Comes
- Inga Simpson, Nest
2014[52]
- Eleanor Limprecht, What Was Left
- Luke Carman, An Elegant Young Man
- Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
- Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda
- Alex Miller, Coal Creek
- Alexis Wright, The Swan Book
2013[53]
- Jessie Cole, Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Michelle de Kretser, Questions of Travel
- Robert Drewe, Montebello
- Christopher Koch, Lost Voices
- P. A. O’Reilly, The Fine Colour of Rust
2012
- Steven Amsterdam, What the Family Needed
- Christopher Edwards, People of Earth
- Diane Fahey, The Wing Collection: New & Selected poems
- Gillian Mears, Foal's Bread
- Favel Parrett, Past The Shallows
- Anna Funder, All That I Am
- Gail Jones, Five Bells
- Alex Miller, Autumn Laing
- Elliot Perlman, The Street Sweeper
- Gig Ryan, Gig Ryan: New and Selected Poems
- Jaya Savige, Surface to Air
2011
- Peter Boyle, Apocrypha
- Peter Goldsworthy, Gravel
- Kim Scott, That Deadman Dance
- Kirsten Tranter, The Legacy
- Chris Womersley, Bereft
2010
- Emily Ballou, The Darwin Poems
- Steven Carroll, The Lost Life
- Eva Hornung, Dog Boy
- Cate Kennedy, The World Beneath
- David Malouf, Ransom
2008[54]
- Michelle de Kretser, The Lost Dog
- J. S. Harry, Not Finding Wittgenstein
- Rhyll McMaster, Feather Man
- David Malouf, Typewriter Music
- Alex Miller, Landscape of Farewell
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- "Deo wins 2018 ALS Gold Medal | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 6 July 2018.
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- "Papertalk Green wins 2020 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- "ALS Gold Medal 2019 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- "ALS Gold Medal 2018 shortlist announced | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 6 November 2018.
- "ALS Gold Medal 2017 shortlist announced". Books + Publishing. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- 2007 Prize winners Archived 19 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine (sic)