ALS Gold Medal 2017 longlist announced

The longlist for the 2017 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced.

The longlisted titles are:

• One Hundred Letters Home (Adam Aitken, Vagabond)
• The Easy Way Out (Steven Amsterdam, Hachette)
• Between a Wolf and a Dog (Georgia Blain, Scribe)
• Ghostspeaking (Peter Boyle, Vagabond)
• Letters to Pessoa (Michelle Cahill, Giramondo)
• Bull Days (Tina Giannoukous, Arcadia)
• Ahead of Us (Dennis Haskell, Fremantle Press)
• The High Places (Fiona McFarlane, Hamish Hamilton)
• Music and Freedom (Zoe Morrison, Vintage)
• Wood Green (Sean Rabin, Giramondo)
• The Museum of Modern Love (Heather Rose, A&U)
• Ruins (Rajith Savandasa, Hachette).

The ALS Gold Medal is presented annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) for a ‘work of outstanding literary merit’ published in the previous calendar year. Last year’s winner was Brenda Niall’s Mannix (Text).

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