1983 in literature

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Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Poetry 5 Non-fiction 6 Births 7 Deaths 8 Awards 8.1 Australia 8.2 Canada 8.3 France 8.4 United Kingdom 8.5 United States 8.6 Elsewhere

[edit] Events

• Ironweed by William Kennedy is published.
• 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 would occur in 1997.

[edit] New books

• 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
• Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Mists of Avalon
• Morley Callaghan - A Time for Judas
• 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
• L. Sprague de Camp
  • The Reluctant King
  • The Unbeheaded King
• Stephen R. Donaldson - White Gold Wielder: Book Three of the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
• Allan W. Eckert - The Dark Green Tunnel
• Ken Follett - On Wings of Eagles
• Ernest J. Gaines - A Gathering of Old Men
• John Gardner - Icebreaker
• Gery Greer and Bob Ruddick - Max and Me and the Time Machine
• Mark Helprin - Winter's Tale
• Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher
• William Kennedy -Ironweed
• Stephen King
  • Christine
  • Pet Sematary
• Dean R. Koontz - Phantoms
• Louis L'Amour - The Lonesome Gods
• John le Carré - The Little Drummer Girl
• Mary Mackey - The Last Warrior Queen
• James A. Michener - Poland
• Anita Brian Moore - Cold Heaven
• R. K. Narayan - A Tiger for Malgudi
• Robert B. Parker - The Widening Gyre
• Tim Powers - The Anubis Gates
• Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic
• Salman Rushdie - Shame
• Joanna Russ - The Zanzibar Cat
• Danielle Steel - Changes (Danielle Steel novel)
• Fay Weldon - The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
• A. N. Wilson - Scandal
• Robert Anton Wilson - Prometheus Rising
• Roger Zelazny - Unicorn Variations

[edit] New drama

• Tom Murphy - The Gigli Concert
• Larry Shue - The Foreigner
• Neil Simon - Brighton Beach Memoirs

[edit] Poetry

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

[edit] Non-fiction

• L. Sprague deCamp - The Fringe of the Unknown
• L. Sprague deCamp, Catherine Crook de Camp and Jane Whittington Griffin - Dark Valley Destiny: the Life of Robert E. Howard
• Susan Oliver - Odyssey: A Daring Transatlantic Journey
• Anna Rosmus - Resistance and Persecution in Passau from 1933 to 1939

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

• January 5 - Chapman Grant, historian and publisher
• February 25 - Tennessee Williams, playwright
• March 3 - Hergé, Belgian comics creator
• April 12 - Desmond Bagley, novelist
• June 19 - Vilmundur Gylfason, Icelandic historian and poer
• September 16 - Roy Andries De Groot, food writer

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prize for Literature: William Golding
• Hugo Award for Best Novel: Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

[edit] Australia

• The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Jenny Summerville, Shields Of Trell
• Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Vivian Smith, Tide Country

[edit] Canada

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

[edit] France

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

[edit] United Kingdom

• Booker Prize: J. M. Coetzee -Life and Times of Michael K
• 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
• Newdigate prize: Peter McDonald
• Whitbread Best Book Award: John Fuller, Flying to Nowhere

[edit] 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 Voight, 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

[edit] Elsewhere

• Premio Nadal: Salvador García Aguilar, Regocijo en el hombre