# ALS Gold Medal

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

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

### 1930s

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

### 1940s

* 1940: William Baylebridge – This Vital Flesh
* 1941: Patrick White – Happy Valley
* 1942: Kylie Tennant – The Battlers
* 1948: Herz Bergner – Between Sky and Sea
* 1949: Percival Serle – Dictionary of Australian Biography

### 1950s

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

### 1960s

* 1960: William Hart-Smith – Poems of Discovery
* 1961: No Award
* 1962: Vincent Buckley – Masters in Israel
* 1963: John Morrison – Twenty-Three : Stories
* 1964: Geoffrey Blainey – The Rush that Never Ended
* 1965: Patrick White – The Burnt Ones
* 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
* 1975–79: No Award

### 1980s

* 1980: No Award
* 1981: No Award
* 1982: No Award
* 1983: David Malouf – Child's Play; Fly Away Peter
* 1984: Les Murray – The People's Otherworld : Poems
* 1985: David Ireland – Archimedes and the Seagle
* 1986: Thea Astley – Beachmasters
* 1987: Alan Wearne – The Nightmarkets
* 1988: Brian Matthews – Louisa
* 1989: Frank Moorhouse – Forty-Seventeen

### 1990s

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

### 2000s

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

### 2010s

* 2010: David Malouf – Ransom
* 2011: Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance
* 2012: Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread
* 2013: Michelle de Kretser – Questions of Travel
* 2014: Alexis Wright – The Swan Book
* 2015: Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms
* 2016: Brenda Niall – Mannix
* 2017: Zoe Morrison – Music and Freedom
* 2018: Shastra Deo – The Agonist
* 2019: Pam Brown – click here for what we do

### 2020s

* 2020: Charmaine Papertalk Green – Nganajungu Yagu
* 2021: Nardi Simpson – Song of the Crocodile
* 2022: Andy Jackson – Human Looking
* 2023: Debra Dank – We Come With This Place
* 2024: Alexis Wright – Praiseworthy

## Shortlisted works

| Year | Author name | Work nominated | Result |
| 2024 | Alexis Wright | Praiseworthy | Winner |
| 2024 | Jordie Albiston | Frank | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | Stuart Barnes | Like to the Lark | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | Katherine Brabon | Body Friend | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | J. M. Coetzee | The Pole and Other Stories | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | Omar Sakr | Non-Essential Work | Shortlisted |
| 2024 | Sara M. Saleh | The Flirtation of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Debra Dank | We Come With This Place | Winner |
| 2023 | Robbie Arnott | Limberlost | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Fiona Kelly McGregor | Iris | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Gavin Yuan Gao | At the Altar of Touch | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Adam Ouston | Waypoints | Shortlisted |
| 2023 | Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella | ART | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Andy Jackson | Human Looking | Winner |
| 2022 | Emily Bitto | Wild Abandon | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | John Kinsella | Pushing Back | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | S. J. Norman | Permafrost | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Elfie Shiosaki | Homecoming | Shortlisted |
| 2022 | Maria Takolander | Trigger Warning | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | Nardi Simpson | Song of the Crocodile | Winner |
| 2021 | Robbie Arnott | The Rain Heron | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | Ronnie Scott | The Adversary | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | Ellen van Neerven | Throat | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | Luke Best | Cadaver Dog | Shortlisted |
| 2021 | Laura Jean McKay | The Animals in That Country | Shortlisted |
| 2020 | Charmaine Papertalk Green | Nganajungu Yagu | Winner |
| 2020 | Jordie Albiston | Element | Shortlisted |
| 2020 | Favel Parrett | There Was Still Love | Shortlisted |
| 2020 | Carrie Tiffany | Exploded View | Shortlisted |
| 2020 | Charlotte Wood | The Weekend | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Pam Brown | click here for what we do | Winner |
| 2019 | Luke Beesley | Aqua Spinach | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Laura Elizabeth Woollett | Beautiful Revolutionary | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella | False Claims of Colonial Thieves | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Jamie Marina Lau | Pink Mountain on Locust Island | Shortlisted |
| 2019 | Gail Jones | The Death of Noah Glass | Shortlisted |
| 2018 | Shastra Deo | The Agonist | Winner |
| 2018 | Peter Carey | A Long Way from Home | Shortlisted |
| 2018 | Eva Hornung | The Last Garden | Shortlisted |
| 2018 | Sofie Laguna | The Choke | Shortlisted |
| 2018 | Steven Lang | Hinterland | Shortlisted |
| 2018 | Gerald Murnane | Border Districts | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | Zoe Morrison | Music and Freedom | Winner |
| 2017 | Steven Amsterdam | The Easy Way Out | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | Georgia Blain | Between a Wolf and a Dog | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | Peter Boyle | Ghostspeaking | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | Heather Rose | The Museum of Modern Love | Shortlisted |
| 2017 | Rajith Savanadasa | Ruins | Shortlisted |
| 2016 | Brenda Niall | Mannix | Winner |
| 2016 | James Bradley | Clade | Shortlisted |
| 2016 | Tegan Bennett Daylight | Six Bedrooms | Shortlisted |
| 2016 | Drusilla Modjeska | Second Half First | Shortlisted |
| 2015 | Jennifer Maiden | Drones and Phantoms | Winner |
| 2015 | Joan London | The Golden Age | Shortlisted |
| 2015 | David Malouf | Earth Hour | Shortlisted |
| 2015 | Favel Parrett | When the Night Comes | Shortlisted |
| 2015 | Inga Simpson | Nest | Shortlisted |
| 2014 | Alexis Wright | The Swan Book | Winner |
| 2014 | Eleanor Limprecht | What Was Left | Shortlisted |
| 2014 | Luke Carman | An Elegant Young Man | Shortlisted |
| 2014 | Hannah Kent | Burial Rites | Shortlisted |
| 2014 | Christos Tsiolkas | Barracuda | Shortlisted |
| 2014 | Alex Miller | Coal Creek | Shortlisted |
| 2013 | Michelle de Kretser | Questions of Travel | Winner |
| 2013 | Jessie Cole | Darkness on the Edge of Town | Shortlisted |
| 2013 | Robert Drewe | Montebello | Shortlisted |
| 2013 | Christopher Koch | Lost Voices | Shortlisted |
| 2013 | P. A. O’Reilly | The Fine Colour of Rust | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Gillian Mears | Foal's Bread | Winner |
| 2012 | Steven Amsterdam | What the Family Needed | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Christopher Edwards | People of Earth | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Diane Fahey | The Wing Collection: New & Selected poems | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Favel Parrett | Past The Shallows | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Anna Funder | All That I Am | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Gail Jones | Five Bells | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Alex Miller | Autumn Laing | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Elliot Perlman | The Street Sweeper | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Gig Ryan | Gig Ryan: New and Selected Poems | Shortlisted |
| 2012 | Jaya Savige | Surface to Air | Shortlisted |
| 2011 | Kim Scott | That Deadman Dance | Winner |
| 2011 | Peter Boyle | Apocrypha | Shortlisted |
| 2011 | Peter Goldsworthy | Gravel | Shortlisted |
| 2011 | Kirsten Tranter | The Legacy | Shortlisted |
| 2011 | Chris Womersley | Bereft | Shortlisted |
| 2010 | David Malouf | Ransom | Winner |
| 2010 | Emily Ballou | The Darwin Poems | Shortlisted |
| 2010 | Steven Carroll | The Lost Life | Shortlisted |
| 2010 | Eva Hornung | Dog Boy | Shortlisted |
| 2010 | Cate Kennedy | The World Beneath | Shortlisted |
| 2008 | Michelle de Kretser | The Lost Dog | Winner |
| 2008 | J. S. Harry | Not Finding Wittgenstein | Shortlisted |
| 2008 | Rhyll McMaster | Feather Man | Shortlisted |
| 2008 | David Malouf | Typewriter Music | Shortlisted |
| 2008 | Alex Miller | Landscape of Farewell | Shortlisted |