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[edit]
2020s[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 1929: Henry Handel Richardson – Ultima Thule[40]
- 1928: Martin Mills (Martin Boyd) – The Montforts[41]
Shortlisted works[edit]
| Year | Author name | Work nominated | Result | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Winner | [42] |
| Robbie Arnott | Limberlost | Shortlisted | [2] | |
| Fiona Kelly McGregor | Iris | Shortlisted | [2] | |
| Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | Shortlisted | [2] | |
| Adam Ouston | Waypoints | Shortlisted | [2] | |
| Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella | ART | Shortlisted | [2] | |
| 2022 | Andy Jackson | Human Looking | Winner | [3] |
| Emily Bitto | Wild Abandon | Shortlisted | [43] | |
| John Kinsella | Pushing Back | Shortlisted | [3] | |
| S. J. Norman | Permafrost | Shortlisted | [3] | |
| Elfie Shiosaki | Homecoming | Shortlisted | [3] | |
| Maria Takolander | Trigger Warning | Shortlisted | [3] | |
| 2021 | Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Winner | |
| Robbie Arnott | The Rain Heron | Shortlisted | [44] | |
| Ronnie Scott | The Adversary
Throat |
Shortlisted | ||
| Luke Best | Cadaver Dog | Shortlisted | [44] | |
| Laura Jean McKay | The Animals in That Country | Shortlisted | [44] | |
| 2020 | Charmaine Papertalk Green | Nganajungu Yagu | Winner | [45] |
| Jordie Albiston | Element | Shortlisted | [46] | |
| Favel Parrett | There Was Still Love | Shortlisted | [46] | |
| Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Shortlisted | [46] | |
| Charlotte Wood | The Weekend | Shortlisted | [46] | |
| 2019 | Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Winner | [47] |
| Luke Beesley | Aqua Spinach | Shortlisted | [48] | |
| Laura Elizabeth Woollett | Beautiful Revolutionary | Shortlisted | [48] | |
| Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella | False Claims of Colonial Thieves | Shortlisted | [48] | |
| Jamie Marina Lau | Pink Mountain on Locust Island | Shortlisted | [48] | |
| Gail Jones | The Death of Noah Glass | Shortlisted | [48] | |
| 2018 | Shastra Deo | The Agonist | Winner | [49] |
| Peter Carey | A Long Way from Home | Shortlisted | [49] | |
| Eva Hornung | The Last Garden | Shortlisted | [49] | |
| Sofie Laguna | The Choke | Shortlisted | [49] | |
| Steven Lang | Hinterland | Shortlisted | [49] | |
| Gerald Murnane | Border Districts | Shortlisted | [49] | |
| 2017 | Zoe Morrison | Music and Freedom | Winner | [50] |
| Steven Amsterdam | The Easy Way Out | Shortlisted | [51] | |
| Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Shortlisted | [51] | |
| Peter Boyle | Ghostspeaking | Shortlisted | [51] | |
| Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Shortlisted | [51] | |
| Rajith Savanadasa | Ruins | Shortlisted | [51] | |
| 2016 | Brenda Niall | Mannix | Winner | [52] |
| James Bradley | Clade | Shortlisted | [52] | |
| Tegan Bennett Daylight | Six Bedrooms | Shortlisted | [52] | |
| Drusilla Modjeska | Second Half First | Shortlisted | [52] | |
| 2015 | Jennifer Maiden | Drones and Phantoms | Winner | [53] |
| Joan London | The Golden Age | Shortlisted | [53] | |
| David Malouf | Earth Hour | Shortlisted | [53] | |
| Favel Parrett | When the Night Comes | Shortlisted | [53] | |
| Inga Simpson | Nest | Shortlisted | [53] | |
| 2014 | Alexis Wright | The Swan Book | Winner | [54] |
| Eleanor Limprecht | What Was Left | Shortlisted | [54] | |
| Luke Carman | An Elegant Young Man | Shortlisted | [54] | |
| Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | Shortlisted | [54] | |
| Christos Tsiolkas | Barracuda | Shortlisted | [54] | |
| Alex Miller | Coal Creek | Shortlisted | [54] | |
| 2013 | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel | Winner | [55] |
| Jessie Cole | Darkness on the Edge of Town | Shortlisted | [55] | |
| Robert Drewe | Montebello | Shortlisted | [55] | |
| Christopher Koch | Lost Voices | Shortlisted | [55] | |
| P. A. O’Reilly | The Fine Colour of Rust | Shortlisted | [55] | |
| 2012 | Gillian Mears | Foal's Bread | Winner | [56] |
| Steven Amsterdam | What the Family Needed | Shortlisted | [56] | |
| Christopher Edwards | People of Earth | Shortlisted | [56] | |
| Diane Fahey | The Wing Collection: New & Selected poems | Shortlisted | [56] | |
| Favel Parrett | Past The Shallows | Shortlisted | [56] | |
| Anna Funder | All That I Am | Shortlisted | [56] | |
| Gail Jones | Five Bells | Shortlisted | [56] | |
| Alex Miller | Autumn Laing | Shortlisted | [56] | |
| Elliot Perlman | The Street Sweeper | Shortlisted | [56] | |
| Gig Ryan | Gig Ryan: New and Selected Poems | Shortlisted | [56] | |
| Jaya Savige | Surface to Air | Shortlisted | [56] | |
| 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[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 5 December 2008.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e f "Jackson's 'Human Looking; wins ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 5 July 2022. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Papertalk Green wins 2020 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ "Brown wins 2019 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 3 July 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- ^ "Deo wins 2018 ALS Gold Medal | Books+Publishing". Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ "Morrison wins ALS Gold Medal". Books + Publishing. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Brenda Niall's life of Archbishop Mannix wins Australia's oldest literary prize" by Jason Steger, The Age, 6 July 2016
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Imaginary lives of the defeated in the realm of alienation", The Canberra Times, 21 February 1990, p33
- ^ Austlit – The Burnt Ones by Patrick White
- ^ Austlit – The Rush That Never Ended by Geoffrey Blainey
- ^ Austlit – Twenty-Three : Stories by John Morrison
- ^ Austlit – Masters in Israel by Vincent Buckley
- ^ Austlit – Poems of Discovery by William Hart Smith
- ^ "Papers of Randolph Stow" National Library of Australia
- ^ Austlit – A Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd
- ^ Austlit – The Tree of Man by Patrick White
- ^ Australian Classics : 50 Great Writers and Their Celebrated Work by Jane Gleeson-White, p61
- ^ "Literary Award to T.A.G. Hungerford" The Canberra Times, 11 February 1954, p3
- ^ "Crouch Prize for Literature to R. Ingamells" The Age, 7 April 1952, p5
- ^ The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature p129
- ^ "News of the Day" The Age, 3 November 1949, p2
- ^ Note wrong title, see [1] letter from Nettie Palmer
- ^ "Melbourne Author Wins Gold Medal" The Argus, 10 December 1948, p10
- ^ "Literature Prize" The Age, 19 November 1943, p2
- ^ "Medal for Author of Happy Valley" The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 1941, p13
- ^ "About People" The Age, 19 February 1941, p20
- ^ "Prize for Best Novel" The Argus, 19 March 1940, p1
- ^ "Literary Gold Medal : Award to Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald" The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 February 1940, p16
- ^ "Seaforth Mackenzie Wins 1937 Literature Prize" The Telegraph, 22 November 1938, p8
- ^ "Return to Coolami : Medal for Best Novel" The Argus, 21 September 1937, p11
- ^ "Gold Medal – Australian Literary Society" The Canberra Times, 31 October 1936, p2
- ^ "Best Novel of 1934" The Argus, 22 October 1935, p6
- ^ "Australian Literature : Society's Annual 'Drama Night'" The Age, 6 October 1934, p21
- ^ "In and About the City – Literature Award" The Courier-Mail, 10 November 1933, p10
- ^ "Literature Society's Gold Medal" The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 July 1932, p3
- ^ "Best Novel of 1930" The Argus, 16 June 1931, p6
- ^ "Australian Novel" The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 March 1930, p6
- ^ "Australian Literature Society" The Age, 8 October 1929, p13
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2023 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 30 May 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2022 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 7 June 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
- ^ a b c "ALS Gold Medal 2021 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- ^ "Papertalk Green wins 2020 ALS Gold Medal". Books+Publishing. 30 June 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d "ALS Gold Medal 2020 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 20 May 2020. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2019 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d e "ALS Gold Medal 2019 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "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.
- ^ a b c d e "ALS Gold Medal 2017 shortlist announced". Books + Publishing. 5 April 2017. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ a b c d Austlit – 2016 ALS Gold Medal
- ^ a b c d e "ALS Gold Medal 2015 shortlist announced", Books + Publishing, 5 May 2015
- ^ a b c d e f "ALS Gold Medal 2014 shortlist announced", Books + Publishing, 27 February 2014
- ^ a b c d e "2013 ALS Gold Medal Shortlist", ANZ LitLovers, 19 March 2013
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Austlit – 2012 ALS Gold Medal