ALS Gold Medal
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Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates 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]
Shortlisted works
See also
References
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- ↑ "Australian Literature Society" The Age, 8 October 1929, p13
- ↑ "Australian Novel" The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 March 1930, p6
- ↑ "Best Novel of 1930" The Argus, 16 June 1931, p6
- ↑ "Literature Society's Gold Medal" The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 July 1932, p3
- ↑ "In and About the City – Literature Award" The Courier-Mail, 10 November 1933, p10
- ↑ "Australian Literature : Society's Annual 'Drama Night'" The Age, 6 October 1934, p21
- ↑ "Best Novel of 1934" The Argus, 22 October 1935, p6
- ↑ "Gold Medal – Australian Literary Society" The Canberra Times, 31 October 1936, p2
- ↑ "Return to Coolami : Medal for Best Novel" The Argus, 21 September 1937, p11
- ↑ "Seaforth Mackenzie Wins 1937 Literature Prize" The Telegraph, 22 November 1938, p8
- ↑ "Literary Gold Medal : Award to Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald" The Sydney Morning Herald, 17 February 1940, p16
- ↑ "Prize for Best Novel" The Argus, 19 March 1940, p1
- ↑ "About People" The Age, 19 February 1941, p20
- ↑ "Medal for Author of Happy Valley" The Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 1941, p13
- ↑ "Literature Prize" The Age, 19 November 1943, p2
- ↑ "Melbourne Author Wins Gold Medal" The Argus, 10 December 1948, p10
- ↑ "News of the Day" The Age, 3 November 1949, p2
- ↑ Note wrong title, see [1] letter from Nettie Palmer
- ↑ The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature p129
- ↑ "Crouch Prize for Literature to R. Ingamells" The Age, 7 April 1952, p5
- ↑ "Literary Award to T.A.G. Hungerford" The Canberra Times, 11 February 1954, p3
- ↑ Australian Classics : 50 Great Writers and Their Celebrated Work by Jane Gleeson-White, p61
- ↑ Austlit – The Tree of Man by Patrick White
- ↑ Austlit – A Difficult Young Man by Martin Boyd
- ↑ "Papers of Randolph Stow" National Library of Australia
- ↑ Austlit – Poems of Discovery by William Hart Smith
- ↑ Austlit – Masters in Israel by Vincent Buckley
- ↑ Austlit – Twenty-Three : Stories by John Morrison
- ↑ Austlit – The Rush That Never Ended by Geoffrey Blainey
- ↑ Austlit – The Burnt Ones by Patrick White
- ↑ "Imaginary lives of the defeated in the realm of alienation", The Canberra Times, 21 February 1990, p33
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- ↑ "Brenda Niall's life of Archbishop Mannix wins Australia's oldest literary prize" by Jason Steger, The Age, 6 July 2016
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- ↑ 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
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