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.

2020s

 * 2024: Alexis Wright – Praiseworthy
 * 2023: Debra Dank – We Come With This Place
 * 2022: Andy Jackson – Human Looking
 * 2021: Nardi Simpson – Song of the Crocodile
 * 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 Otherworld : Poems
 * 1983: David Malouf – Child's Play; Fly Away Peter
 * 1982: No Award
 * 1981: No Award
 * 1980: No Award

1970s

 * 1975–79: No Award
 * 1974: David Malouf – Neighbours in a Thicket
 * 1973: Francis Webb
 * 1972: Alex Buzo – Macquarie (play)
 * 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 – Twenty-Three : Stories
 * 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 – The Great South Land : An Epic Poem
 * 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 (Edith J. Lyttleton) – 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 (Martin Boyd) – The Montforts