The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (ALS Gold Medal) is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature for "an outstanding...

including the 2023 Queensland Literary Awards' Fiction Book Award, 2024 ALS Gold Medal, the 2024 Miles Franklin Award, and the 2024 Stella Prize. It also drew...

He was awarded a Congressional Gold Medal in 2019 and the Arthur Ashe Courage Award in 2024 for his contributions to ALS awareness. Born and raised in...

) (1939) Sextains (1939) This Vital Flesh (1939) - Awarded the 1940 ALS Gold Medal Moreton Miles (Second ed.) (1941) This Vital Flesh (1961) - Collected...

International Dublin Literary Award and won the 2024 ALS Gold Medal. This was Wright's third ALS Gold Medal. She is the third author to have achieved this,...

Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 1 August 2014. "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature...

Carpentaria is the second novel by the Indigenous Australian author Alexis Wright. It met with widespread critical acclaim when it was published in mid-2006...

The Tree of Man is the fourth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It is a domestic drama chronicling...

for The Sound of One hand Clapping (2002) Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (for Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish) (2002) Victorian Premier's...

frailties of humanity". The novel received the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1948. Arnold Zable wrote a foreword to the 2010 Text Publishing edition...

won several awards, including the 2013 Miles Franklin Award, the 2013 ALS Gold Medal, and the 2013 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. It was also...

Weekend 2020 – Miles Franklin Award, longlisted, The Weekend 2020 – ALS Gold Medal, shortlisted, The Weekend 2021 – Christina Stead Prize for Fiction,...

Manolis and Koula. Divorced with two young children: Sava and Angeliki. ALS Gold Medal, 2008: winner Commonwealth Writers' Prize, 2009: winner for Best Book...

Radiance is a play by Australian author and playwright Louis Nowra and was first performed at Belvoir Street Theatre in 1993. The play focuses on three...

Vincent Thomas Buckley (8 July 1925 – 12 November 1988) was an Australian poet, teacher, editor, essayist and critic. Buckley was born in 1925 in Romsey...

Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction for Holden's Performance 1998: ALS Gold Medal for Eucalyptus 1999: Miles Franklin Award for Eucalyptus 1999: Commonwealth...

Dame Mary Jean Gilmore DBE (née Cameron; 16 August 1865 – 3 December 1962) was an Australian writer and journalist known for her prolific contributions...

name, then Helen Darville. It won the 1995 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. After teaching, Dale returned to university, gaining her law degree in...

Poems". AustLit. "Neighbours In A Thicket: Poems". 1 December 1980. "ALS Gold Medal". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 3 October...

the Wild Pineapple 1980: Member of the Order of Australia (AM) 1986: ALS Gold Medal for Beachmasters 1989: Patrick White Award 1990: New South Wales Premier's...

2011 – Miles Franklin Literary Award for That Deadman Dance 2011 – ALS Gold Medal for That Deadman Dance 2011 – Western Australian Premier's Book Awards...

Ransom (2009) is a novel by Australian author David Malouf. It retells the story of the Iliad from books 22 to 24. This story begins with Achilles mourning...

Britannica Australia Awards for Literature 1966: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal 1967: Myer Award for Australian Poetry 1969: Ingram Merrill Foundation...

Penguin, Australia, 1991 and 2008 Harper, USA, 1991 The novel won the ALS Gold Medal in 1991. 1990 in Australian literature "Austlit — Cabin Fever by Elizabeth...

Australian writer Patrick White. It won the 1941 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. White did not allow the novel to be republished in his lifetime. Not...

Year Award Category Result Ref 2014 ALS Gold Medal — Won Miles Franklin Award — Shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize...

(1931) is a novel by Australian author Frank Dalby Davison. It won the ALS Gold Medal for Best Novel in 1931. Set on a Queensland cattle station, the novel...

London between 1930 and 1932. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Australia's Best Novel of 1939. The 1940s and 1950s were a relatively...

Miles Franklin Award, the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the 1999 ALS Gold Medal. Eucalyptus tells the story of Ellen Holland, a young woman whose "speckled...

by most other authors. The book won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Australia’s Best Novel of 1939. Prominent Australian author and historian...