Literary Awards
The biennial Magarey Medal for biography, awarded to the female author who has published the work judged to be the best biographical writing on an Australian subject in the preceding two years, was presented to Ann-Marie Priest for the 2022 title My Tongue Is My Own: A life of Gwen Harwood (La Trobe University Press), the first biography of the poet, which also won the 2023 National Biography Award. Click here to read the QRC review.
The winner of the 2024 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal is Alexis Wright for Praiseworthy (Giramondo).
The win is the third for Wright, who joins Patrick White and David Malouf as the only authors to have won the ALS Gold Medal three times.
Praiseworthy previously won the Stella Prize, the Fiction Book Award at Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards and the James Tait Black Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award.