ALS Gold Medal longlist announced

ALS Gold Medal longlist announced
ALS Gold Medal Page - previous winners-- http://asaliterature.com/?page_id=9

 The ALS Gold Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year. The Medal was inaugurated by the Australian Literature Society, which was founded in Melbourne in 1899 and incorporated into the Association for the Study of Australian Literature in 1982. 
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). 
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