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== Award winners == |
== Award winners == |
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* '''[[2007]]:''' [[Alexis Wright]] - ''Carpentaria'' (Giramondo) |
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* '''[[2006]]:''' [[Gregory Day]] - ''The Patron Saint of Eels'' (Picador) |
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* '''[[2005]]:''' [[Gail Jones]] - ''Sixty Lights'' (Harvill) |
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* '''[[2001]]:''' [[Rodney Hall]] - ''The Day We Had Hitler Home'' |
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* '''[[2000]]:''' [[Drusilla Modjeska]] - ''Stravinsky's Lunch'' |
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* '''[[1999]]:''' [[Murray Bail]] - ''Eucalyptus'' |
* '''[[1999]]:''' [[Murray Bail]] - ''[[Eucalyptus (novel)|Eucalyptus]]'' |
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* '''[[1998]]:''' [[James Cowan (author)|James Cowan]] - ''A Mapmaker's Dream'' |
* '''[[1998]]:''' [[James Cowan (author)|James Cowan]] - ''A Mapmaker's Dream'' |
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* '''[[1997]]:''' [[Robert Dessaix]] - ''Night Letters'' |
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Revision as of 05:23, 14 September 2007
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
- 2007: Alexis Wright - Carpentaria (Giramondo)
- 2006: Gregory Day - The Patron Saint of Eels (Picador)
- 2005: Gail Jones - Sixty Lights (Harvill)
- 2004: Laurie Duggan - Mangroves (UQP)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1975-82: No Award
- 1974: David Malouf - Neighbours in a Thicket
- 1973: Francis Webb
- 1972: Alex Buzo
- 1971: Colin Badger
- 1970: Manning Clark
- 1966: A. D. Hope
- 1965: Patrick White - The Burnt Ones
- 1964: Geoffrey Blainey - The Rush that Never Ended
- 1963: John Morrison - Twenty-three stories
- 1962: Vincent Buckley - Masters in Israel
- 1960: William Hart Smith - Poems of Discovery
- 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
- 1950: Jon Cleary - Just Let Me Be
- 1948: Herz Bergner - Between Sky and Sea
- 1942: Kylie Tennant - The Battlers
- 1941: Patrick White - Happy Valley
- 1940: William Baylebridge - This Vital Flesh
- 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 (Edith J. Lyttleton) - Pageant
- 1932: Leonard Mann - Flesh in Armour
- 1931: Frank Dalby Davison - Manshy
- 1930: Vance Palmer - The Passage
- 1929: Henry Handel Richardson - Ultima Thule
- 1928: Martin Mills(Martin Boyd) - The Montforts
See also
References
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 2007-09-14.
External links
- ALS Gold Medal Award homepage