The Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for 2008 has been awarded to The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas.
The society's website has a detailed judges' report on the novel.
The shortlisted works were:
Divine Comedy: Journeys through a regional geography. John Kinsella (UQP)
Her Father's Daughter. John Clanchy (UQP)
House of Exile: The Life and Times of Heinrich Mann and Nelly Kroeger-Mann. Evelyn Juers (Giramondo)
Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw. Chris Wallace-Crabbe (Carcenet Press)
The Slap. Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin)
The Spare Room. Helen Garner (Text)
