1983 in literature

List of years in literature

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In poetry: 1980; 1981; 1982; 1983; 1984; 1985; 1986

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

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.)

New books

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
Marion Zimmer Bradley – The Mists of Avalon
Morley Callaghan – A Time for Judas
Raymond Carver – Cathedral
Hugo Claus – 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 and Sharpe's Enemy
Bernard and Judy Cornwell (as Susannah Kells) – A Crowning Glory
György Dalos – 1985
L. Sprague de Camp – The Reluctant King and 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
Susan Hill – The Woman in Black
Elfriede Jelinek – The Piano Teacher
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
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

Children and young people

Roald Dahl – The Witches
Mem Fox – Possum Magic
Rumer Godden
- Four Dolls
- The Valiant Chatti-Maker
Dick King-Smith – The Sheep-Pig (also Babe, the Gallant Pig)
Astrid Lindgren – The Runaway Sleigh Ride!
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

Poetry

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

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
Nawal El Saadawi – Mudhakkirâtî fî sijn an-nisâʾ (Memoirs from the Women's Prison)
Shantabai Kamble – Majya Jalmachi Chittarkatha
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)
Humbert S. Nelli – From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans

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.

References

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