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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1983.




Events


April – The Russian samizdat poet Irina Ratushinskaya is sentenced to imprisonment in a labor camp for dissident activity. While there she continues to write poetry clandestinely.
June 2 – The Francophone Senegalese poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor becomes the first black African writer elected as a member of the Académie française.
July – Barbara Cartland, who reaches the age of 82, writes 23 romantic novels this year.
November – Bruce Bethke's short story "Cyberpunk", written in 1980, is published in Amazing Stories magazine in the United States, giving a name to the science fiction subgenre of cyberpunk.
unknown date – Salvage for the Saint by Peter Bloxsom and John Kruse is published, as the final book in a series of novels, novellas and short stories featuring the Leslie Charteris creation "The Saint", which started in 1928. (An attempt to revive the series in 1997 is unsuccessful.)




New books






= Fiction

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Nelson Algren (posthumous) – The Devil's Stocking
Isaac Asimov – The Robots of Dawn
Greg Bear – The Wind from a Burning Woman
Samuel Beckett – Worstward Ho
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
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
Mark Helprin – Winter's Tale
Susan Hill – The Woman in Black
Elizabeth Jolley – Woman in a Lamp Shade
Ernst Jünger – Aladdin's Problem
William Kennedy – Ironweed
Stephen King
Christine
Pet Sematary
Dean R. Koontz – Phantoms
Louis L'Amour – The Lonesome Gods
Derek Lambert – The Judas Code
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
Salman Rushdie – Shame
Joanna Russ – The Zanzibar Cat
Danielle Steel – Changes
Peter Straub – Floating Dragon
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

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Chris Van Allsburg – The Wreck of the Zephyr
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (with Willi Glasauer) – Beauty and the Beast
Roald Dahl – The Witches
Lynley Dodd – Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy (first of the Hairy Maclary and Friends series)
Mem Fox – Possum Magic
Dick King-Smith – The Sheep-Pig (also as Babe, the Gallant Pig)
Harold Lamb (with George Barr and Alicia Austin) - The Sea of the Ravens
Jean Giono (with Willi Glasauer) – The Man Who Planted Trees
Julian F. Thompson - The Grounding of Group 6




= Drama

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Samuel Beckett – Nacht und Träume (television play, first broadcast)
Ray Cooney – Run for Your Wife
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

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




= Non-fiction

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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
Joan Didion – Salvador
Terry Eagleton – Literary Theory: An Introduction
Anthony Grey – The Prime Minister Was a Spy
Susan Oliver – Odyssey: A Daring Transatlantic Journey
Renée Richards – Second Serve: The Renée Richards Story
Colin Thubron – Among the Russians
A. N. Wilson – The Life of John Milton: A Biography




Births


November 17 – Christopher Paolini, American fantasy novelist
December 6 – Jason Reynolds, African American children's novelist and poet
unknown date – Sarah Howe, Hong Kong-born poet writing in English




Deaths


January 5 – Chapman Grant, American historian and publisher (born 1887)
January 18 – Colin Watson, English crime fiction writer (born 1920)
February 14 – Brita von Horn, Swedish theater director, dramatist and novelist (born 1886)
February 18 – Robert Payne, English author, poet and biographer (born 1911)
February 25 – Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier Williams III), American playwright (born 1911)
March 3 – Hergé (Georges Prosper Remi), Belgian comics creator (born 1907)
March 15 – Dame Rebecca West, British writer (born 1892)
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)
May 26 – Jack Hilton, British writer (born 1900)
June 19 – Vilmundur Gylfason, Icelandic historian, poet and politician (suicide, born 1948)
June 27 – Alden Nowlan, Canadian poet, novelist and playwright (born 1933)
July 27 – Gladys Mitchell, English crime fiction writer (born 1901)
August 12 – Mikey Smith, Jamaican dub poet (stoned to death; born 1954)
August 18 – Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (born 1902)
September 15 – Beverley Nichols, English writer and playwright (born 1898)
September 16 – Roy Andries De Groot, English-born American food writer (born 1910)
November 30 – Richard Llewellyn, British novelist (heart attack, born 1906)
December 5 – John Robinson, English religious writer and bishop (born 1919)
December 13 – Mary Renault, British novelist (born 1905)




Awards


Nobel Prize for Literature: William Golding




= Australia

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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

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




= France

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




= Spain

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Miguel de Cervantes Prize: Rafael Alberti




= United Kingdom

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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

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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 Isaac
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan




= Elsewhere

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




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