Alexis Wright and Luke Carman shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal

We’re thrilled to have two titles shortlisted for the 2013 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.

Alexis Wright, The Swan Book
Luke Carman, An Elegant Young Man

The ALS Gold Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar year. The medal was inaugurated in the 1920s by the Australian Literature Society, which was founded in Melbourne in 1899.