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ALS Gold Medal 2023 shortlist announced

The shortlist for the 2023 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced.

The shortlisted works are:

  • We Come With This Place (Debra Dank, Echo)
  • Limberlost (Robbie Arnott, Text)
  • Iris (Fiona Kelly McGregor, Pan Macmillan)
  • At the Altar of Touch (Gavin Yuan Gao, UQP)
  • Waypoints (Adam Ouston, Puncher & Wattmann)
  • ART (Charmaine Papertalk Green & John Kinsella, Magabala).

Judges Larissa McLean Davies, Philip Mead, Helen Cozmescu and Melitta Hogarth selected the shortlisted works from a longlist of 13 titles.

Awarded annually for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year, the ALS Gold Medal is Australia’s longest running literary award. The winner, to be announced in July, receives a gold medal.

 

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