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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.” 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.

Contents

2010s

  • 2016: Brenda Niall – Mannix
  • 2015: Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms
  • 2014: Alexis Wright – The Swan Book
  • 2013: Michelle de Kretser – Questions of Travel
  • 2012: Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread
  • 2011: Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance
  • 2010: David Malouf – Ransom

    • 2000s

  • 2009: Christos Tsiolkas – The Slap
  • 2008: Michelle de Kretser – The Lost Dog
  • 2007: Alexis Wright – Carpentaria
  • 2006: Gregory Day – The Patron Saint of Eels
  • 2005: Gail Jones – Sixty Lights
  • 2004: Laurie Duggan – Mangroves
  • 2003: Kate Jennings – Moral Hazard
  • 2002: Richard Flanagan – Gould's Book of Fish
  • 2001: Rodney Hall – The Day We Had Hitler Home
  • 2000: Drusilla Modjeska – Stravinsky's Lunch

    • 1990s

  • 1999: Murray Bail – Eucalyptus
  • 1998: James Cowan – A Mapmaker's Dream
  • 1997: Robert Dessaix – Night Letters
  • 1996: Amanda Lohrey – Camille's Bread
  • 1995: Helen Demidenko – The Hand That Signed the Paper
  • 1994: Louis Nowra – Radiance and The Temple
  • 1993: Elizabeth Riddell – Selected Poems
  • 1992: Rodney Hall – The Second Bridegroom
  • 1991: Elizabeth Jolley – Cabin Fever
  • 1990: Peter Porter – Possible Worlds

    • 1980s

  • 1989: Frank Moorhouse – Forty-seventeen
  • 1988: Brian Matthews – Louisa
  • 1987: Alan Wearne – The Nightmarkets
  • 1986: Thea Astley – Beachmasters
  • 1985: David Ireland – Archimedes and the Seagle
  • 1984: Les Murray – The People's Other World
  • 1983: David Malouf – Child's Play; Fly Away Peter
  • 1980-82: No Award

    • 1970s

  • 1975–79: No Award
  • 1974: David Malouf – Neighbours in a Thicket
  • 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
  • 1964: Geoffrey Blainey – The Rush that Never Ended
  • 1963: John Morrison – Twenty-Three : Stories
  • 1962: Vincent Buckley – Masters in Israel
  • 1960: William Hart Smith – Poems of Discovery

    • 1950s

  • 1959: Randolph Stow – To the Islands
  • 1957: Martin Boyd – A Difficult Young Man
  • 1955: Patrick White – The Tree of Man
  • 1954: Mary Gilmore – Fourteen Men
  • 1952: Tom Hungerford — The Ridge and the River : A Novel
  • 1951: Rex Ingamells — The Great South Land : An Epic Poem
  • 1950: Jon Cleary – Just Let Me Be

    • 1940s

  • 1948: Herz Bergner – Between Sky and Sea
  • 1942: Kylie Tennant – The Battlers
  • 1941: Patrick White – Happy Valley
  • 1940: William Baylebridge – This Vital Flesh

    • 1930s

  • 1939: Xavier Herbert – Capricornia
  • 1938: R. D. FitzGerald – Moonlight Acre
  • 1937: Seaforth Mackenzie – The Young Desire It
  • 1936: Eleanor Dark – Return to Coolami
  • 1935: Winifred Birkett – Earth's Quality
  • 1934: Eleanor Dark – Prelude to Christopher
  • 1933: G. B. Lancaster (Edith J. Lyttleton) – Pageant
  • 1932: Leonard Mann – Flesh in Armour
  • 1931: Frank Dalby Davison – Man-Shy
  • 1930: Vance Palmer – The Passage

    • 1920s

  • 1929: Henry Handel Richardson – Ultima Thule
  • 1928: Martin Mills (Martin Boyd) – The Montforts

    • Shortlisted works

    2016

  • James Bradley, Clade
  • Tegan Bennett Daylight, Six Bedrooms
  • Drusilla Modjeska, Second Half First
  • Brenda Niall, Mannix

    • 2015

  • Joan London, The Golden Age
  • Jennifer Maiden, Drones and Phantoms
  • David Malouf, Earth Hour
  • Favel Parrett, When the Night Comes
  • Inga Simpson, Nest

    • 2014

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    • References

    ALS Gold Medal Wikipedia
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