ALS Gold Medal
The Australian Literature Society 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
2020s
- 2020: Charmaine Papertalk Green — Nganajungu Yagu
2010s
- 2019: Pam Brown — click here for what we do
- 2018: Shastra Deo – The Agonist
- 2017: Zoe Morrison – Music and Freedom
- 2016: Brenda Niall – Mannix
- 2015: Jennifer Maiden – Drones and Phantoms
- 2014: Alexis Wright – The Swan Book
- 2013: Michelle de Kretser – Questions of Travel
- 2012: Gillian Mears – Foal's Bread
- 2011: Kim Scott – That Deadman Dance
- 2010: David Malouf – Ransom
2000s
- 2009: Christos Tsiolkas – The Slap
- 2008: Michelle de Kretser – The Lost Dog
- 2007: Alexis Wright – Carpentaria
- 2006: Gregory Day – The Patron Saint of Eels
- 2005: Gail Jones – Sixty Lights
- 2004: Laurie Duggan – Mangroves
- 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
1990s
- 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
1980s
- 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
- 1980–82: No Award
1970s
- 1975–79: No Award
- 1974: David Malouf – Neighbours in a Thicket
- 1973: Francis Webb
- 1972: Alex Buzo – Macquarie
- 1971: Colin Badger
- 1970: Manning Clark
1960s
- 1966: A. D. Hope
- 1965: Patrick White – The Burnt Ones
- 1964: Geoffrey Blainey – The Rush that Never Ended
- 1963: John Morrison – '
- 1962: Vincent Buckley – Masters in Israel
- 1960:' William Hart-Smith – Poems of Discovery''
1950s
- 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 – The Ridge and the River : A Novel
- 1951: Rex Ingamells – '
- 1950:' Jon Cleary – Just Let Me Be''
1940s
- 1949: Percival Serle – Dictionary of Australian Biography
- 1948: Herz Bergner – Between Sky and Sea
- 1942: Kylie Tennant – The Battlers
- 1941: Patrick White – Happy Valley
- 1940: William Baylebridge – This Vital Flesh
1930s
- 1939: Xavier Herbert – Capricornia
- 1938: R. D. FitzGerald – Moonlight Acre
- 1937: 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 – Pageant
- 1932: Leonard Mann – Flesh in Armour
- 1931: Frank Dalby Davison – Man-Shy
- 1930: Vance Palmer – The Passage
1920s
- 1929: Henry Handel Richardson – Ultima Thule
- 1928: Martin Mills – The Montforts
Shortlisted works
- Jordie Albiston, Element
- Charmaine Papertalk Green, Nganajungu Yagu
- Favel Parrett, There Was Still Love
- Carrie Tiffany, Exploded View
- Charlotte Wood, The Weekend
- Luke Beesley, Aqua Spinach
- Laura Elizabeth Woollett, Beautiful Revolutionary
- Peter Carey, A Long Way from Home
- Shastra Deo, The Agonist
- Eva Hornung, The Last Garden
- Sofie Laguna, The Choke
- Steven Lang, Hinterland
- Gerald Murnane, Border Districts
- Steven Amsterdam, The Easy Way Out
- Georgia Blain, Between a Wolf and a Dog
- Peter Boyle, Ghostspeaking
- James Bradley, Clade
- Tegan Bennett Daylight, Six Bedrooms
- Drusilla Modjeska, Second Half First
- Brenda Niall, Mannix
- Joan London, The Golden Age
- Eleanor Limprecht, What Was Left
- Luke Carman, An Elegant Young Man
- Hannah Kent, Burial Rites
- Christos Tsiolkas, Barracuda
- Alex Miller, Coal Creek
- Jessie Cole, Darkness on the Edge of Town
- Steven Amsterdam, What the Family Needed
- Christopher Edwards, People of Earth
- Diane Fahey,
- Peter Boyle, Apocrypha
- Peter Goldsworthy, Gravel
- Emily Ballou, The Darwin Poems
- Steven Carroll, The Lost Life
- Eva Hornung, Dog Boy
- Cate Kennedy, The World Beneath