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1983 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1983.

Contents

Events

  • April – Russian samizdat poet Irina Ratushinskaya is sentenced to imprisonment in a labor camp for dissident activity; she continues to write poetry clandestinely in prison.
  • June 2 – Francophone Senegalese poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor becomes the first black African writer elected as a member of the Académie française.
  • Barbara Cartland, who reaches the age of 82 in July, writes 23 romantic novels this year.
  • Salvage for the Saint by Peter Bloxsom and John Kruse is published. This is the final book in a series of novels, novellas and short stories featuring the Leslie Charteris creation "The Saint" that started in 1928. (An unsuccessful attempt at restarting the series will occur in 1997.)

    • Fiction

  • Isaac Asimov – The Robots of Dawn
  • Greg Bear – The Wind from a Burning Woman
  • Samuel Beckett – Worstward Ho
  • Thomas Berger – The Feud
  • Thomas Bernhard – The Loser (Der Untergeher)
  • Jorge Luis Borges – Shakespeare's Memory (La memoria de Shakespeare, short stories)
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Mists of Avalon
  • Morley Callaghan – A Time for Judas
  • Raymond Carver – Cathedral
  • Hugo Claus – The Sorrow of Belgium (Het verdriet van België)
  • J. M. Coetzee – Life and Times of Michael K
  • Jackie Collins – Hollywood Wives
  • Basil Copper – The House of the Wolf
  • Bernard Cornwell
  • Sharpe's Sword
  • Sharpe's Enemy
  • Bernard and Judy Cornwell (as Susannah Kells) – A Crowning Glory
  • György Dalos – 1985
  • L. Sprague de Camp
  • The Reluctant King
  • The Unbeheaded King
  • Jim Dodge – Fup
  • Stephen R. Donaldson – White Gold Wielder: Book Three of The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
  • Nora Ephron – Heartburn
  • Ken Follett – On Wings of Eagles
  • Ernest J. Gaines – A Gathering of Old Men
  • John Gardner – Icebreaker
  • Haidar Haidar – Walimah li A'ashab al-Bahr (وليمة لأعشاب البحر, A Feast for the Seaweeds)
  • Maarten 't Hart – De kroongetuige
  • Mark Helprin – Winter's Tale
  • Amado V. Hernandez – Luha ng Buwaya (Crocodile's Tear)
  • Susan Hill – The Woman in Black
  • Elfriede Jelinek – The Piano Teacher (Die Klavierspielerin)
  • Jo Jung-rae – The Tae Baek Mountains (태백산맥, publication begins)
  • Ernst Jünger – Aladdin's Problem
  • William Kennedy – Ironweed
  • Stephen King – Christine
  • Danilo Kiš – The Encyclopedia of the Dead (Enciklopedija mrtvih)
  • Dean R. Koontz – Phantoms
  • Louis L'Amour – The Lonesome Gods
  • John le Carré – The Little Drummer Girl
  • Mary Mackey – The Last Warrior Queen
  • Norman Mailer – Ancient Evenings
  • James A. Michener – Poland
  • R. K. Narayan – A Tiger for Malgudi
  • Robert B. Parker – The Widening Gyre
  • Ellis Peters
  • The Sanctuary Sparrow
  • The Devil's Novice
  • Tim Powers – The Anubis Gates
  • Terry Pratchett – The Colour of Magic
  • Satyajit Ray – Shonku Ekai Aksho (Shonku, All in All, collected Professor Shonku stories)
  • Salman Rushdie – Shame
  • Joanna Russ – The Zanzibar Cat
  • Danielle Steel – Changes
  • Walter Tevis – The Queen's Gambit
  • Gore Vidal – Duluth
  • Evangeline Walton – The Sword is Forged
  • Fay Weldon – The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
  • A. N. Wilson – Scandal
  • Robert Anton Wilson – Prometheus Rising
  • Christa Wolf – Cassandra (Kassandra)
  • Roger Zelazny – Unicorn Variations (stories and essays)

    • Children and young people

  • Chris Van Allsburg - The Wreck of the Zephyr
  • Roald Dahl – The Witches
  • Mem Fox – Possum Magic
  • Rumer Godden
  • Four Dolls
  • The Valiant Chatti-Maker
  • Dick King-Smith – The Sheep-Pig (also as Babe, the Gallant Pig)
  • Astrid Lindgren – The Runaway Sleigh Ride! (Titta Madicken, det snöar!)
  • Bill Peet – No Such Things

    • Drama

  • Samuel Beckett – Nacht und Träume (television play, first broadcast)
  • David Mamet – Glengarry Glen Ross
  • Tom Murphy – The Gigli Concert
  • Christina Reid – Tea in a China Cup
  • Larry Shue – The Foreigner
  • Neil Simon – Brighton Beach Memoirs
  • Botho Strauß – The Park (Der Park)

    • Poetry

  • Paul Durcan – Jumping the Train Tracks with Angela
  • Grace Nichols – I is a long-memoried woman

    • Non-fiction

  • Benedict Anderson – Imagined Communities
  • Pascal Bruckner – The Tears of the White Man
  • L. Sprague de Camp – The Fringe of the Unknown
  • L. Sprague de Camp, Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin – Dark Valley Destiny
  • Tom Dardis – Harold Lloyd: The Man on the Clock
  • Nawal El Saadawi – Mudhakkirâtî fî sijn an-nisâʾ (Memoirs from the Women's Prison)
  • Shantabai Kamble – Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha (The Kaleidoscopic Story of My Life)
  • Humbert S. Nelli – From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans
  • Susan Oliver – Odyssey: A Daring Transatlantic Journey
  • Renée Richards – Second Serve: The Renée Richards Story
  • Anna Rosmus – Widerstand und Verfolgung am Beispiel Passau 1933–1945 (Resistance and Persecution — The Case of Passau 1933–1945)
  • Colin Thubron – Among the Russians
  • Julia Urquidi – Lo que Varguitas no dijo (What Little Vargas Did not Say)

    • Births

  • July 2 – Tao Lin (林韬), Chinese novelist and poet
  • November 17 – Christopher Paolini, American fantasy novelist
  • Unknown date – Sarah Howe, Hong Kong-born poet writing in English

    • Deaths

  • January 5 – Chapman Grant, American historian and publisher (born 1887)
  • February 14 – Brita von Horn, Swedish theater director, dramatist and novelist (born 1886)
  • February 25 – Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams III), American playwright (born 1911)
  • March 3 – Hergé (Georges Prosper Remi), Belgian comics creator (born 1907)
  • April 12 – Desmond Bagley, English novelist (complications from stroke, born 1923))
  • May 4 – Shūji Terayama (寺山 修司), Japanese poet, dramatist, and film director (cirrhosis, born 1935)
  • May 21 – Amal Abul-Qassem Donqol, Egyptian poet (born 1940)
  • June 19 – Vilmundur Gylfason, Icelandic historian, poet and politician (suicide, born 1948)
  • June 27 – Alden Nowlan, Canadian poet, novelist and playwright (born 1933)
  • August 12 – Mikey Smith, Jamaican dub poet (stoned to death; born 1954)
  • September 16 – Roy Andries De Groot, English-born American food writer (born 1910)
  • December 5 – John Robinson, English religious writer and bishop (born 1919)

    • Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: William Golding

    • Australia

  • The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Jenny Summerville, Shields Of Trell
  • Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Vivian Smith, Tide Country
  • Miles Franklin Award: No award presented

    • Canada

  • See 1983 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

    • France

  • Prix Goncourt: Frédérick Tristan, Les Égarés
  • Prix Médicis French: Jean Echenoz, Cherokee
  • Prix Médicis International: Kenneth White, La Route bleue

    • Spain

  • Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Rafael Alberti

    • United Kingdom

  • Booker Prize: J. M. Coetzee -Life and Times of Michael K
  • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Jan Mark, Handles
  • Cholmondeley Award: John Fuller, Craig Raine, Anthony Thwaite
  • Eric Gregory Award: Martin Stokes, Hilary Davies, Michael O'Neill, Lisa St Aubin De Teran, Deidre Shanahan
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Jonathan Keates, Allegro Postillions
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Alan Walker, Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years
  • Newdigate prize: Peter McDonald
  • Whitbread Best Book Award: John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere

    • United States

  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Kate Daniels, The White Wave
  • Nebula Award: David Brin, Startide Rising
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Voigt, Dicey's Song
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marsha Norman, 'Night, Mother
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Alice Walker – The Color Purple
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Galway Kinnell – Selected Poems
  • Pulitzer Prize for History: The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 by Rhys L. Isaac
  • Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan

    • Elsewhere

  • Hugo Award for Best Novel: Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
  • Premio Nadal: Salvador García Aguilar, Regocijo en el hombre

    • References

    1983 in literature Wikipedia
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