ALS Gold Medal

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 • 1943–1947: Not awarded • 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'' • 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 • 2025: Fiona McFarlane – Highway 13 == Shortlisted works ==