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.
Award winners
1920s +Award winnersYearAuthorWorkResult1928 (Martin Boyd)Winner1929Ultima ThuleWinner 1930s +Award winnersYearAuthorWorkResult1930Winner1931Man-ShyWinner1932Flesh in ArmourWinner1933 (Edith J. Lyttleton)PageantWinner1934Prelude to ChristopherWinner1935Earth's QualityWinner1936Return to CoolamiWinner1937Winner1938Moonlight AcreWinner1939CapricorniaWinner 1940s +Award winnersYearAuthorWorkResult1940This Vital FleshWinner1941Happy ValleyWinner1942Winner1943No award presented1944No award presented1945No award presented1946No award presented1947No award presented1948Between Sky and SeaWinner1949Dictionary of Australian BiographyWinner 1950s +Award winnersYearAuthorWorkResult1950Just Let Me BeWinner1951Winner1952Winner1953No award presented1954Fourteen MenWinner1955Winner1956No award presented1957Winner1958No award presented1959To the IslandsWinner 1960s +Award winnersYearAuthorWorkResult1960Poems of DiscoveryWinner1961No award presented1962Masters in IsraelWinner1963Twenty-Three: StoriesWinner1964Winner1965Winner1966Winner1967No award presented1968No award presented1969No award presented 1970s +Award winnersYearAuthorWorkResult1970Winner1971Winner1972MacquarieWinner1973Winner1974Neighbours in a ThicketWinner1975No award presented1976No award presented1977No award presented1978No award presented1979No award presented
1980s +Award winnersYearAuthorWorkResult1980No award presented1981No award presented1982No award presented1983Child's Play; Fly Away PeterWinner1984Winner1985Archimedes and the SeagleWinner1986BeachmastersWinner1987Winner1988LouisaWinner1989Forty-SeventeenWinner
1990s +Award winnersYearAuthorWorkResult1990Possible WorldsWinner1991Cabin FeverWinner1992Winner1993Selected PoemsWinner1994Radiance and The TempleWinner1995Winner1996Camille's BreadWinner1997Night LettersWinner1998Winner1999EucalyptusWinner
2000s +Award winners and finalistsYearAuthorWorkResult2000Stravinsky's LunchWinner2001Winner2002Gould's Book of FishWinner2003Moral HazardWinner2004MangrovesWinner2005Sixty LightsWinner2006Winner2007CarpentariaWinner 2008 Winner Not Finding WittgensteinShortlisted Feather Man Typewriter Music Landscape of Farewell 2009 Winner Her Father's Daughter Shortlisted House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann Divine Comedy: Journeys Through Regional GeographyTelling a Hawk from a Handsaw
2010s +Award winners and finalistsYearAuthor WorkResult2010RansomWinner Shortlisted Dog Boy 2011 That Deadman Dance Winner ApocryphaShortlisted Gravel Bereft2012Foal's BreadWinner What the Family NeededShortlisted People of Earth Past the Shallows All That I AmFive BellsAutumn Laing Gig Ryan: New and Selected Poems Surface to Air2013Questions of TravelWinner Darkness on the Edge of TownShortlisted Montebello Lost Voices 2014Winner What Was LeftShortlisted An Elegant Young Man Burial Rites Barracuda Coal Creek2015 Drones and Phantoms Winner ShortlistedEarth HourWhen the Night ComesNest2016MannixWinnerCladeShortlistedSix BedroomsSecond Half First2017 Music and Freedom Winner ShortlistedBetween a Wolf and a DogGhostspeakingRuins2018Winner A Long Way from HomeShortlisted HinterlandBorder Districts2019click here for what we doWinner Aqua Spinach Shortlisted Beautiful Revolutionary and John Kinsella False Claims of Colonial ThievesPink Mountain on Locust Island
2020s +Award winners and finalistsYearAuthorWorkResult2020Nganajungu YaguWinnerElementShortlistedThere Was Still LoveExploded View2021Song of the CrocodileWinnerShortlistedThroatCadaver Dog 2022 Human Looking Winner Wild Abandon Shortlisted Pushing Back Permafrost Homecoming Trigger Warning 2023 We Come With This Place Winner LimberlostShortlisted Iris At the Altar of Touch Waypoints and John Kinsella ART2024PraiseworthyWinner Frank Shortlisted Like to the Lark Body Friend Non-Essential Work2025Highway 13Winner Monument Shortlisted Chinese Postman 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese PoemGhost Cities2026Elegy, SouthwestWinnerDisciplineShortlistedTwo Hundred Million MusketeersWhat Kept You?A Savage Turn and Safdar Ahmed
See also
Australian literature
References
External links Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)