ALS Gold Medal
The ALS Gold Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year. The Medal was inaugurated by the Australian Literature Society, which was founded in Melbourne in 1899 and incorporated into the Association for the Study of Australian Literature in 1982.
The winner receives a gold medal. No nominations are required, though ASAL members are invited to propose potential winners to the judging panel.
Chair of the 2008 Gold Medal panel is Damien Barlow.
Click here to read the 2007 ALS Gold Medal Judges Report (.rtf)
Previous Award Winners
2007 |
Alexis Wright
| Carpentaria Giramondo |
2006 |
Gregory Day
| The Patron Saint of Eels Picador |
2005 |
Gail Jones
| Sixty Lights Harvill Press |
2004 |
Laurie Duggan
| Mangroves UQP |
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 |
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 |
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 |
1975-82 |
No Award |
ASAL takes over award in 1983 |
1974 |
David Malouf |
Neighbours in a Thicket |
1973 | Francis Webb |
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1972 |
Alexander Buzo |
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1971 |
Colin Badger |
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1970 |
Manning Clark |
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1966 |
A.D. Hope |
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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 |
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 |
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1950 |
Jon Cleary |
Just Let Me Be |
1948 |
Herz Bergner |
Between Sky and Sea |
1942 |
Kylie Tennant |
The Battlers |
1941 |
Patrick White |
Happy Valley |
1940 |
William Baylebridge |
This Vital Flesh |
1939 |
Xavier Herbert |
Capricornia |
1938 |
R.D. FitzGerald |
Moonlight Acre |
1937 |
Kenneth '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 |
Manshy |
1930 |
Vance Palmer |
The Passage |
1929 |
Henry Handel Richardson |
Ultima Thule |
1928 |
Martin Mills (Martin Boyd) |
The Montforts |
ASAL would appreciate any information about the gaps in this list. Please email Peter Kirkpatrick.
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