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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

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.

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

New drama

Poetry

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

Non-fiction

Births

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

Awards

Australia

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

Canada

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

1983 in literature.html

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere