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Annual Australian literary award From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
Award winners
1920s
1930s
- 1930: Vance Palmer – The Passage[4]
- 1931: Frank Dalby Davison – Man-Shy[5]
- 1932: Leonard Mann – Flesh in Armour[6]
- 1933: G. B. Lancaster (Edith J. Lyttleton) – Pageant[7]
- 1934: Eleanor Dark – Prelude to Christopher[8]
- 1935: Winifred Birkett – Earth's Quality[9]
- 1936: Eleanor Dark – Return to Coolami[10]
- 1937: Seaforth Mackenzie – The Young Desire It[11]
- 1938: R. D. FitzGerald – Moonlight Acre[12]
- 1939: Xavier Herbert – Capricornia[13]
1940s
- 1940: William Baylebridge – This Vital Flesh[14]
- 1941: Patrick White – Happy Valley[15]
- 1942: Kylie Tennant – The Battlers[16]
- 1948: Herz Bergner – Between Sky and Sea[17]
- 1949: Percival Serle – Dictionary of Australian Biography[18][19]
1950s
- 1950: Jon Cleary – Just Let Me Be[20]
- 1951: Rex Ingamells – The Great South Land : An Epic Poem[21]
- 1952: T. A. G. Hungerford – The Ridge and the River : A Novel[22]
- 1954: Mary Gilmore – Fourteen Men[23]
- 1955: Patrick White – The Tree of Man[24]
- 1957: Martin Boyd – A Difficult Young Man[25]
- 1959: Randolph Stow – To the Islands[26]
1960s
- 1960: William Hart-Smith – Poems of Discovery[27]
- 1961: No Award
- 1962: Vincent Buckley – Masters in Israel[28]
- 1963: John Morrison – Twenty-Three : Stories[29]
- 1964: Geoffrey Blainey – The Rush that Never Ended[30]
- 1965: Patrick White – The Burnt Ones[31]
- 1966: A. D. Hope
1970s
- 1970: Manning Clark
- 1971: Colin Badger
- 1972: Alex Buzo – Macquarie (play)
- 1973: Francis Webb
- 1974: David Malouf – Neighbours in a Thicket[32]
- 1975–79: No Award
1980s
- 1980: No Award
- 1981: No Award
- 1982: No Award
- 1983: David Malouf – Child's Play; Fly Away Peter[33]
- 1984: Les Murray – The People's Otherworld : Poems[33]
- 1985: David Ireland – Archimedes and the Seagle[33]
- 1986: Thea Astley – Beachmasters[33]
- 1987: Alan Wearne – The Nightmarkets[33]
- 1988: Brian Matthews – Louisa[33]
- 1989: Frank Moorhouse – Forty-Seventeen[33]
1990s
- 1990: Peter Porter – Possible Worlds[33]
- 1991: Elizabeth Jolley – Cabin Fever[33]
- 1992: Rodney Hall – The Second Bridegroom[33]
- 1993: Elizabeth Riddell – Selected Poems[33]
- 1994: Louis Nowra – Radiance and The Temple[33]
- 1995: Helen Demidenko – The Hand That Signed the Paper[33]
- 1996: Amanda Lohrey – Camille's Bread[33]
- 1997: Robert Dessaix – Night Letters[33]
- 1998: James Cowan – A Mapmaker's Dream[33]
- 1999: Murray Bail – Eucalyptus[33]
2000s
- 2000: Drusilla Modjeska – Stravinsky's Lunch[33]
- 2001: Rodney Hall – The Day We Had Hitler Home[33]
- 2002: Richard Flanagan – Gould's Book of Fish[33]
- 2003: Kate Jennings – Moral Hazard[33]
- 2004: Laurie Duggan – Mangroves[33]
- 2005: Gail Jones – Sixty Lights[33]
- 2006: Gregory Day – The Patron Saint of Eels[33]
- 2007: Alexis Wright – Carpentaria[33]
- 2008: Michelle de Kretser – The Lost Dog[33]
- 2009: Christos Tsiolkas – The Slap[33]
2010s
- 2010: David Malouf – Ransom[33]
- 2011: Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance[33]
- 2012: Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread[33]
- 2013: Michelle de Kretser – Questions of Travel[33]
- 2014: Alexis Wright – The Swan Book[33]
- 2015: Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms[33]
- 2016: Brenda Niall – Mannix[34]
- 2017: Zoe Morrison – Music and Freedom[35]
- 2018: Shastra Deo – The Agonist[36]
- 2019: Pam Brown – click here for what we do[37]
2020s
- 2020: Charmaine Papertalk Green – Nganajungu Yagu[38]
- 2021: Nardi Simpson – Song of the Crocodile[39]
- 2022: Andy Jackson – Human Looking[40]
- 2023: Debra Dank – We Come With This Place[41]
- 2024: Alexis Wright – Praiseworthy[42]
- 2025: Fiona McFarlane – Highway 13[43]
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