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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.

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Award winners

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1930s

1940s

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1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Shortlisted works

YearAuthor nameWork nominatedResultRef
2024 Alexis Wright Praiseworthy Winner [42]
Jordie Albiston FrankShortlisted [43]
Stuart Barnes Like to the LarkShortlisted [43]
Katherine BrabonBody FriendShortlisted [43]
J. M. Coetzee The Pole and Other Stories Shortlisted [43]
Omar Sakr Non-Essential WorkShortlisted [43]
Sara M. SalehThe Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-BanatShortlisted [43]
2023 Debra Dank We Come With This PlaceWinner [44]
Robbie Arnott Limberlost Shortlisted [41]
Fiona Kelly McGregor IrisShortlisted [41]
Gavin Yuan GaoAt the Altar of TouchShortlisted [41]
Adam OustonWaypointsShortlisted [41]
Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella ARTShortlisted [41]
2022 Andy JacksonHuman LookingWinner [40]
Emily Bitto Wild AbandonShortlisted [45]
John Kinsella Pushing BackShortlisted [40]
S. J. NormanPermafrostShortlisted [40]
Elfie ShiosakiHomecomingShortlisted [40]
Maria Takolander Trigger WarningShortlisted [40]
2021 Nardi Simpson Song of the CrocodileWinner
Robbie Arnott The Rain Heron Shortlisted [46]
Ronnie ScottThe AdversaryShortlisted [46]
Ellen van Neerven ThroatShortlisted [46]
Luke BestCadaver DogShortlisted [46]
Laura Jean McKay The Animals in That Country Shortlisted [46]
2020 Charmaine Papertalk Green Nganajungu YaguWinner [47]
Jordie Albiston ElementShortlisted [48]
Favel Parrett There Was Still LoveShortlisted [48]
Carrie Tiffany Exploded ViewShortlisted [48]
Charlotte Wood The WeekendShortlisted [48]
2019 Pam Brown click here for what we doWinner [49]
Luke BeesleyAqua SpinachShortlisted [50]
Laura Elizabeth WoollettBeautiful RevolutionaryShortlisted [50]
Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella False Claims of Colonial ThievesShortlisted [50]
Jamie Marina LauPink Mountain on Locust IslandShortlisted [50]
Gail Jones The Death of Noah Glass Shortlisted [50]
2018 Shastra Deo The AgonistWinner [51]
Peter Carey A Long Way from HomeShortlisted [51]
Eva Hornung The Last GardenShortlisted [51]
Sofie Laguna The ChokeShortlisted [51]
Steven LangHinterlandShortlisted [51]
Gerald Murnane Border DistrictsShortlisted [51]
2017 Zoe Morrison Music and FreedomWinner [52]
Steven Amsterdam The Easy Way OutShortlisted [53]
Georgia Blain Between a Wolf and a DogShortlisted [53]
Peter Boyle GhostspeakingShortlisted [53]
Heather Rose The Museum of Modern Love Shortlisted [53]
Rajith Savanadasa RuinsShortlisted [53]
2016 Brenda Niall MannixWinner [54]
James Bradley CladeShortlisted [54]
Tegan Bennett Daylight Six BedroomsShortlisted [54]
Drusilla Modjeska Second Half FirstShortlisted [54]
2015 Jennifer Maiden Drones and Phantoms Winner [55]
Joan London The Golden Age Shortlisted [55]
David Malouf Earth HourShortlisted [55]
Favel Parrett When the Night ComesShortlisted [55]
Inga Simpson NestShortlisted [55]
2014 Alexis Wright The Swan Book Winner [56]
Eleanor Limprecht What Was LeftShortlisted [56]
Luke Carman An Elegant Young ManShortlisted [56]
Hannah Kent Burial Rites Shortlisted [56]
Christos Tsiolkas BarracudaShortlisted [56]
Alex Miller Coal Creek Shortlisted [56]
2013 Michelle de Kretser Questions of Travel Winner [57]
Jessie Cole Darkness on the Edge of TownShortlisted [57]
Robert Drewe MontebelloShortlisted [57]
Christopher Koch Lost VoicesShortlisted [57]
P. A. O’ReillyThe Fine Colour of RustShortlisted [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 ApocryphaShortlisted
Peter Goldsworthy GravelShortlisted
Kirsten Tranter The LegacyShortlisted
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 WittgensteinShortlisted
Rhyll McMaster Feather Man Shortlisted
David Malouf Typewriter MusicShortlisted
Alex Miller Landscape of Farewell Shortlisted

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