ALS Gold Medal

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

1920s

Award winners[2]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
1928 Martin Mills (Martin Boyd) The Montforts Winner [3]
1929 Henry Handel Richardson Ultima Thule Winner [4]

1930s

Award winners[2]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
1930 Vance Palmer The Passage Winner [5]
1931 Frank Dalby Davison Man-Shy Winner [6]
1932 Leonard Mann Flesh in Armour Winner [7]
1933 G. B. Lancaster (Edith J. Lyttleton) Pageant Winner [8]
1934 Eleanor Dark Prelude to Christopher Winner [9]
1935 Winifred Birkett Earth's Quality Winner [10]
1936 Eleanor Dark Return to Coolami Winner [11]
1937 Seaforth Mackenzie The Young Desire It Winner [12]
1938 R. D. FitzGerald Moonlight Acre Winner [13]
1939 Xavier Herbert Capricornia Winner [14]

1940s

Award winners[2]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
1940 William Baylebridge This Vital Flesh Winner [15]
1941 Patrick White Happy Valley Winner [16]
1942 Kylie Tennant The Battlers Winner [17]
1943 No award presented [18]
1944 No award presented [18]
1945 No award presented [18]
1946 No award presented [18]
1947 No award presented [18]
1948 Herz Bergner Between Sky and Sea Winner [19]
1949 Percival Serle Dictionary of Australian Biography Winner [20]

1950s

Award winners[2]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
1950 Jon Cleary Just Let Me Be Winner [21]
1951 Rex Ingamells The Great South Land: An Epic Poem Winner [22]
1952 T. A. G. Hungerford The Ridge and the River Winner [23]
1953 No award presented
1954 Mary Gilmore Fourteen Men Winner [24]
1955 Patrick White The Tree of Man Winner [25]
1956 No award presented
1957 Martin Boyd A Difficult Young Man Winner [26]
1958 No award presented
1959 Randolph Stow To the Islands Winner [27]

1960s

Award winners[2]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
1960 William Hart-Smith Poems of Discovery Winner [28]
1961 No award presented
1962 Vincent Buckley Masters in Israel Winner [29]
1963 John Morrison Twenty-Three: Stories Winner [30]
1964 Geoffrey Blainey The Rush that Never Ended Winner [31]
1965 Patrick White The Burnt Ones Winner [32]
1966 A. D. Hope Winner
1967 No award presented
1968 No award presented
1969 No award presented

1970s

Award winners[2]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
1970 Manning Clark Winner
1971 Colin Badger Winner
1972 Alex Buzo Macquarie Winner
1973 Francis Webb Winner
1974 David Malouf Neighbours in a Thicket Winner [33]
1975 No award presented
1976 No award presented
1977 No award presented
1978 No award presented
1979 No award presented

1980s

Award winners[2]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
1980 No award presented
1981 No award presented
1982 No award presented
1983 David Malouf Child's Play; Fly Away Peter Winner
1984 Les Murray The People's Otherworld: Poems Winner
1985 David Ireland Archimedes and the Seagle Winner
1986 Thea Astley Beachmasters Winner
1987 Alan Wearne The Nightmarkets Winner
1988 Brian Matthews Louisa Winner
1989 Frank Moorhouse Forty-Seventeen Winner

1990s

Award winners[2]
Year Author Work Result Ref.
1990 Peter Porter Possible Worlds Winner
1991 Elizabeth Jolley Cabin Fever Winner
1992 Rodney Hall The Second Bridegroom Winner
1993 Elizabeth Riddell Selected Poems Winner
1994 Louis Nowra Radiance and The Temple Winner
1995 Helen Demidenko The Hand That Signed the Paper Winner
1996 Amanda Lohrey Camille's Bread Winner
1997 Robert Dessaix Night Letters Winner
1998 James Cowan A Mapmaker's Dream Winner
1999 Murray Bail Eucalyptus Winner

2000s

Award winners[2] and finalists
Year Author Work Result Ref.
2000 Drusilla Modjeska Stravinsky's Lunch Winner
2001 Rodney Hall The Day We Had Hitler Home Winner
2002 Richard Flanagan Gould's Book of Fish Winner
2003 Kate Jennings Moral Hazard Winner
2004 Laurie Duggan Mangroves Winner
2005 Gail Jones Sixty Lights Winner
2006 Gregory Day The Patron Saint of Eels Winner
2007 Alexis Wright Carpentaria Winner
2008 Michelle de KretserThe Lost DogWinner
J. S. Harry Not Finding Wittgenstein Shortlisted [34]
Rhyll McMaster Feather Man
David Malouf Typewriter Music
Alex Miller Landscape of Farewell
2009 Christos TsiolkasThe SlapWinner
John Clanchy Her Father's Daughter Shortlisted [35]
Helen Garner The Spare Room
Evelyn Juers House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann
John Kinsella Divine Comedy: Journeys Through Regional Geography
Chris Wallace-Crabbe Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw

2010s

Award winners[2] and finalists
Year Author Work Result Ref.
2010 David Malouf Ransom Winner
John Kinsella The Darwin Poems Shortlisted [35]
Steven Carroll The Lost Life
Eva Hornung Dog Boy
Cate Kennedy The World Beneath
2011 Kim ScottThat Deadman DanceWinner
Peter Boyle Apocrypha Shortlisted [35]
Peter Goldsworthy Gravel
Kirsten Tranter The Legacy
Chris Womersley Bereft
2012 Gillian Mears Foal's Bread Winner
Steven AmsterdamWhat the Family Needed Shortlisted [36]
Christopher Edwards People of Earth
Diane Fahey The Wing Collection: New & Selected Poems
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
2013 Michelle de Kretser Questions of Travel Winner
Jessie Cole Darkness on the Edge of Town Shortlisted [37]
Robert Drewe Montebello
Christopher Koch Lost Voices
P. A. O'Reilly The Fine Colour of Rust
2014 Alexis Wright The Swan Book Winner
Eleanor Limprecht What Was Left Shortlisted [38]
Luke Carman An Elegant Young Man
Hannah Kent Burial Rites
Christos Tsiolkas Barracuda
Alex Miller Coal Creek
2015 Jennifer MaidenDrones and PhantomsWinner
Joan London The Golden Age Shortlisted [39]
David Malouf Earth Hour
Favel Parrett When the Night Comes
Inga Simpson Nest
2016 Brenda Niall Mannix Winner [40]
James Bradley Clade Shortlisted [41]
Tegan Bennett Daylight Six Bedrooms
Drusilla Modjeska Second Half First
2017 Zoe MorrisonMusic and FreedomWinner[42]
Steven Amsterdam The Easy Way Out Shortlisted [43]
Georgia Blain Between a Wolf and a Dog
Peter Boyle Ghostspeaking
Heather Rose The Museum of Modern Love
Rajith Savanadasa Ruins
2018 Shastra Deo The Agonist Winner [44]
Peter Carey A Long Way from Home Shortlisted [45]
Eva Hornung The Last Garden
Sofie Laguna The Choke
Steven Lang Hinterland
Gerald Murnane Border Districts
2019 Pam Brown click here for what we do Winner [46]
Luke Beesley Aqua Spinach Shortlisted [47]
Laura Elizabeth Woollett Beautiful Revolutionary
Charmaine Papertalk Green and John Kinsella False Claims of Colonial Thieves
Jamie Marina Lau Pink Mountain on Locust Island
Gail Jones The Death of Noah Glass

2020s

Award winners[2] and finalists
Year Author Work Result Ref.
2020 Charmaine Papertalk Green Nganajungu Yagu Winner [48]
Jordie Albiston Element Shortlisted [49]
Favel Parrett There Was Still Love
Carrie Tiffany Exploded View
Charlotte Wood The Weekend
2021 Nardi Simpson Song of the Crocodile Winner [50]
Robbie Arnott The Rain Heron Shortlisted [51]
Ronnie Scott The Adversary
Ellen van Neerven Throat
Luke Best Cadaver Dog
Laura Jean McKay The Animals in That Country
2022 Andy JacksonHuman LookingWinner[52]
Emily BittoWild AbandonShortlisted[53]
John KinsellaPushing Back
S. J. NormanPermafrost
Elfie ShiosakiHomecoming
Maria TakolanderTrigger Warning
2023 Debra DankWe Come With This PlaceWinner[54]
Robbie Arnott Limberlost Shortlisted [55]
Fiona Kelly McGregorIris
Gavin Yuan GaoAt the Altar of Touch
Adam OustonWaypoints
Charmaine Papertalk Green and John KinsellaART
2024 Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Winner [56]
Jordie AlbistonFrankShortlisted[57]
Stuart BarnesLike to the Lark
Katherine BrabonBody Friend
J. M. CoetzeeThe Pole and Other Stories
Omar SakrNon-Essential Work
Sara M. Saleh The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat
2025 Fiona McFarlane Highway 13 Winner [58]
Bonny CassidyMonumentShortlisted[1]
Brian CastroChinese Postman
Melanie ChengThe Burrow
Helen GarnerThe Season
Nam Le 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
Siang Lu Ghost Cities
2026 Randa Abdel-Fattah Discipline Shortlisted [59]
Ender Başkan Two Hundred Million Musketeers
Raaza Jamshed What Kept You?
Luke Patterson A Savage Turn
Omar Sakr and Safdar Ahmed The Nightmare Sequence
Madeleine Watts Elegy, Southwest

See also

References

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