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ALS Gold Medal longlist announced

The longlist for the 2013 ALS Gold Medal has been announced.

The longlisted titles are:

  • Lola Bensky (Lily Brett, Hamish Hamilton)
  • Darkness on the Edge of Town (Jessie Cole, Fourth Estate)
  • Questions of Travel (Michelle de Kretser, A&U)
  • Montebello (Robert Drewe, Hamish Hamilton)
  • The Engagement (Chloe Hooper, Hamish Hamilton)
  • Cumulus: Collected Poems (Robert Gray, John Leonard Press)
  • Like a House on Fire (Cate Kennedy, Scribe)
  • Lost Voices (Christopher Koch, Fourth Estate)
  • The Mountain (Drusilla Modjeska, Vintage)
  • The History of Books (Gerald Murnane, Giramondo)
  • The Fine Colour of Rust (P A O’Reilly, HarperCollins)
  • The Light Between Oceans (M S Stedman, Vintage).

 

The longlisted titles were chosen from more than 80 entries, which represented ‘both the quality and diversity of Australian literary publishing’, said the award judges. A shortlist will be announced on 18 March, ahead of the winner announcement at the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) conference in Wagga, NSW, in July.  

The ALS Gold Medal is presented annually by the ASAL for ‘a work of outstanding literary merit’ published in the previous calendar year. This year’s award is judged by Curtain University’s Jo Jones (chair) and Paul Genoni, and University of Western Australia Publishing director Terri-ann White.

As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Gillian Mears won the 2012 ALS Gold Medal for Foal’s Bread (A&U).

 

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