ALS Gold Medal

Given by Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)

Other Names: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (Russian)
184 Works 25,810 Books 1,428 Reviews ½ 3.7
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 show more calendar year.” 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. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (69), Shortlist (65), Longlist (50)
Years:
All, 2024 (14), 2023 (13), 2022 (9), 2021 (12), 2020 (12), 2019 (12), 2018 (12), 2017 (10), 2016 (4), 2015 (5), 2014 (6), 2013 (5), 2012 (4), 2011 (3), 2010 (5), 2008 (6), 2007 (1), 2006 (1), 2005 (1), 2004 (1), 2003 (1), 2002 (1), 2001 (1), 2000 (1), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1997 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (1), 1991 (1), 1990 (1), 1989 (1), 1988 (1), 1987 (1), 1986 (1), 1985 (1), 1984 (1), 1983 (2), 1974 (1), 1972 (1), 1965 (1), 1964 (1), 1962 (1), 1959 (1), 1957 (1), 1955 (1), 1954 (1), 1952 (1), 1951 (1), 1949 (1), 1948 (1), 1942 (1), 1941 (1), 1939 (1), 1938 (1), 1937 (1), 1936 (1), 1934 (1), 1933 (1), 1932 (1), 1931 (1), 1930 (1), 1929 (1), 1928 (1)

Winner 69

WorkYear
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright2024
We Come With This Place by Debra Dank2023
Human Looking by Andy Jackson2022
Song of the Crocodile by Nardi Simpson2021
Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green2020
click here for what we do by Pam Brown2019
The Agonist by Shastra Deo2018
Music and Freedom by Zoe Morrison2017
Mannix by Brenda Niall2016
Drones and phantoms by Jennifer Maiden2015
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright2014
Questions of Travel by Michelle De Kretser2013
Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears2012
That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott2011
Ransom by David Malouf2010
The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser2008
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas2008
Carpentaria by Alexis Wright2007
The Patron Saint of Eels by Gregory Day2006
Sixty Lights by Gail Jones2005
Mangroves by Laurie Duggan2004
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings2003
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan2002
The Day We Had Hitler Home by Rodney Hall2001
Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska2000
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail1999
A Mapmaker's Dream: The Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of Venice by James Cowan1998
Night Letters by Robert Dessaix1997
Camille's Bread by Amanda Lohrey1996
The Hand That Signed The Paper by Helen Darville1995
Radiance: The Play and the Screenplay (PLAYS/SCREENPLAYS) by Louis Nowra1994
Selected poems by Elizabeth Riddell1993
The Second Bridegroom by Rodney Hall1992
Cabin Fever by Elizabeth Jolley1991
Possible Worlds (Oxford Paperbacks) by Peter Porter1990
Forty-seventeen by Frank Moorhouse1989
Louisa by Brian Matthews1988
The Nightmarkets: A Novel by Alan Wearne1987
Beachmasters by Thea Astley1986
Archimedes and the Seagle by David Ireland1985
The People's Otherworld by Les A. Murray1984
Child's Play, with Eustace and The Prowler by David Malouf1983
Fly Away Peter by David Malouf1983
Neighbours in a thicket : poems by David Malouf1974
Macquarie by Alexander Buzo1972
The Burnt Ones by Patrick White1965
The rush that never ended : a history of Australian mining by Geoffrey Blainey1964
Masters in Israel : poems by Vincent Buckley1962
To The Islands by Randolph Stow1959
A Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd1957
The Tree of Man by Patrick White1955
Fourteen Men and other poems by Dame Mary Gilmore1954
The ridge and the river by T. A. G. Hungerford1952
The great south land : an epic poem by Rex Ingamells1951
Dictionary of Australian biography by Percival Serle1949
Between Sky and Sea by Herz Bergner1948
The Battlers by Kylie Tennant1942
Happy Valley by Patrick White1941
Capricornia by Xavier Herbert1939
Moonlight acre by Robert D. FitzGerald1938
The Young Desire It by Kenneth Mackenzie1937
Return to Coolami by Eleanor Dark1936
Prelude to Christopher by Eleanor Dark1934
Pageant by G. B. Lancaster1933
Flesh in Armour: A Novel by Leonard Mann1932
Man-shy by Frank Dalby Davison1931
The passage by Vance Palmer1930
Ultima Thule by Henry Handel Richardson1929
The Montforts by Martin Boyd1928

Shortlist 65

WorkYear
Like to the Lark by Stuart Barnes2024
Body Friend by Katherine Brabon2024
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee2024
Non-Essential Work by Omar Sakr2024
The Flirtation of Girls / Ghazal el-Banat by Sara M. Saleh2024
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott2023
At the Altar of Touch by Gavin Yuan Gao2023
Iris by Fiona Kelly McGregor2023
Waypoints by Adam Ouston2023
Art by Charmaine Papertalk Green2023
Wild Abandon by Emily Bitto2022
Permafrost by SJ Norman2022
Homecoming by Elfie Shiosaki2022
Trigger Warning (UQP Poetry Series) by Maria Takolander2022
The Rain Heron by Robbie Arnott2021
Cadaver Dog by Luke Best2021
Throat by Ellen van Neerven2021
The Adversary by Ronnie Scott2021
Element by Jordie Albiston2020
There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett2020
Exploded View by Carrie Tiffany2020
The Weekend by Charlotte Wood2020
Aqua Spinach by Luke Beesley2019
False Claims of Colonial Thieves by Charmaine Papertalk Green2019
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones2019
Pink Mountain on Locust Island by Jamie Marina Lau2019
Beautiful Revolutionary by Laura Elizabeth Woollett2019
A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey2018
The Last Garden by Eva Hornung2018
The Choke by Sofie Laguna2018
Hinterland by Steven Lang2018
Border Districts by Gerald Murnane2018
The Easy Way Out by Steven Amsterdam2017
Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain2017
The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose2017
Ruins by Rajith Savanadasa2017
Six Bedrooms by Tegan Bennett Daylight2016
Clade by James Bradley2016
Second Half First by Drusilla Modjeska2016
The Golden Age by Joan London2015
Earth Hour by David Malouf2015
When the Night Comes by Favel Parrett2015
Nest by Inga Simpson2015
An Elegant Young Man by Luke Carman2014
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent2014
What was left by Eleanor Limprecht2014
Coal Creek by Alex Miller2014
Barracuda by Christos Tsiolkas2014
Darkness on the edge of town by Jessie Cole2013
Montebello by Robert Drewe2013
Lost Voices by C. J. Koch2013
The Fine Colour of Rust by P.A. O'Reilly2013
All That I Am by Anna Funder2012
Five Bells by Gail Jones2012
The Street Sweeper by Elliot Perlman2012
The Legacy: A Novel by Kirsten Tranter2011
Bereft by Chris Womersley2011
The Darwin Poems by Emily Ballou2010
The Lost Life by Steven Carroll2010
Dog Boy by Eva Hornung2010
The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy2010
Not Finding Wittgenstein: Peter Henry Lepus Poems by J. S. Harry2008
Typewriter Music by David Malouf2008
Feather Man by Rhyll McMaster2008
Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller2008

Longlist 50

WorkYear
The Tour by 𝛑.𝛐. (Pi O)2024
Frank by Jordie Albiston2024
The Prize by Kim E Anderson2024
The Exclusion Zone by Shastra Deo2024
Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems by Jill Jones2024
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko2024
After the Rain by Aisling Smith2024
Personal Score by Ellen van Neerven2024
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au2023
Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill2023
Googlecholia by Michael Farrell2023
Harvest Lingo: New poems (Giramondo Poetry) by Lionel Fogarty2023
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt2023
Salonika Burning by Gail Jones2023
The Settlement by Jock Serong2023
Locust Summer by David Allan-Petale2022
TAKE CARE by Eunice Andrada2022
The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon2022
Killernova by Omar Musa2022
Revenge: Murder in Three Parts by S. L. Lim2021
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey2021
The Animals in That Country by Laura Jean McKay2021
Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore2021
Lucky's by Andrew Pippos2021
The Fifth Season by Philip Salom2021
The Lactic Acid in the Calves of Your Despair by Ali Whitelock2021
Archival-poetics by Natalie Harkin2020
The House of Youssef by Yumna Kassab2020
The Rich Man's House by Andrew McGahan2020
The Trespassers by Meg Mundell2020
Driving into the Sun by Marcella Polain2020
Damascus by Christos Tsiolkas2020
The Yield by Tara June Winch2020
Flames by Robbie Arnott2019
Newcastle Sonnets by Keri Glastonbury2019
The Everlasting Sunday by Robert Lukins2019
Zanzibar Light by Philip Mead2019
The Children's House by Alice Nelson2019
Blakwork by Alison Whittaker2019
The Last Days of Jeanne d'Arc by Ali Alizadeh2018
Common People by Tony Birch2018
The Life to Come by Michelle De Kretser2018
The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover2018
Gwen by Goldie Goldbloom2018
The Passage of Love by Alex Miller2018
One hundred letters home by Adam Aitken2017
Letter to Pessoa by Michelle Cahill2017
Ahead of Us by Dennis Haskell2017
The High Places by Fiona McFarlane2017
Wood Green by Sean Rabin2017

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