1983 in literature

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The year 1983 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

[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
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 & Judy Cornwell (as Susannah Kells) - A Crowning Glory
L. Sprague de Camp - The Reluctant King and 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 and 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
Norman Mailer - Ancient Evenings
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)
Walter Tevis - The Queen's Gambit
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

[edit] Poetry

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

[edit] Non-fiction

[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

[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.

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Contents

[edit] Events

[edit] New books

[edit] New drama

[edit] Poetry

[edit] Non-fiction

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Awards

[edit] Australia

[edit] Canada

[edit] France

[edit] United Kingdom

[edit] United States

[edit] Elsewhere

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