The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced.

The shortlisted titles are:

• A Long Way from Home by Peter Carey
• The Agonist by Shastra Deo
• The Last Garden by Eva Hornung
• The Choke by Sofie Laguna
• Hinterland by Steven Lang
• Border Districts by Gerald Murnane

The six shortlisted titles were chosen from a longlist of 12 announced in March this year.

The ALS Gold Medal is awarded annually by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) for a ‘work of outstanding literary merit’ published in the previous calendar year