ALS Gold Medal 2018 longlist announced

The longlist for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced.

The longlisted titles are:

• The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc (Ali Alizadeh, Giramondo)
• Common People (Tony Birch, UQP)
• A Long Way from Home (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton)
• The Life to Come (Michelle de Kretser, A&U)
• The Agonist (Shastra Deo, UQP)
• The Last Man in Europe (Dennis Glover, Black Inc.)
• Gwen (Goldie Goldbloom, Fremantle Press)
• The Last Garden (Eva Hornung, Text)
• The Choke (Sofie Laguna, A&U)
• Hinterland (Steven Lang, UQP)
• The Passage of Love (Alex Miller, A&U)
• Border Districts (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo)

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 Zoe Morrison for her debut novel Music and Freedom (Vintage).

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