1983 in literature

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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.[1]
  • 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 and as a novel online, giving a name to the entire 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[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Non-fiction[]

Births[]

  • July 2 – Tao Lin (林韬), Chinese novelist and poet
  • November 17 – Christopher Paolini, American fantasy novelist[4]
  • December 6 – Jason Reynolds, African American children's novelist and poet[5]
  • unknown date – Sarah Howe, Hong Kong-born poet writing in English[6]

Deaths[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: William Golding[7]

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

Spain[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Irina Ratushinskaya: Soviet dissident who turned captivity into poetry". The Independent. 12 July 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Samuel Beckett, the maestro of failure". the Guardian. 7 July 2016. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  3. ^ John Le Carré (16 October 2008). The Little Drummer Girl: Soon to be a major TV series. Hodder & Stoughton. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-84456-910-6.
  4. ^ "Literary Birthday - 17 November - Christopher Paolini". Writers Write. 17 November 2012. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  5. ^ "Jason Reynolds named Library of Congress' national ambassador for young people's literature". CBS News. 2020-01-13. Archived from the original on 2020-05-23. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  6. ^ "Sarah Howe - Biography". Sarah Howe. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  7. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  8. ^ Neil James (1999). Writers on Writing. Halstead Press. p. 147. ISBN 978-1-875684-27-4.
  9. ^ Australian Book Review. Australian Book Review. 2001. p. 49.
  10. ^ Douglas W. Alden (December 1985). French XX Bibliography. Associated University Presse. p. 9598. ISBN 978-0-933444-45-4.
  11. ^ Lumea. 1984. p. 29.
  12. ^ Luke Strongman (2002). The Booker Prize and the Legacy of Empire. Rodopi. p. 78. ISBN 90-420-1488-1.
  13. ^ The Publishers Weekly. F. Leypoldt. 1984. p. 45.
  14. ^ Ed. Mohit K. Ray (September 2007). The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 435. ISBN 978-81-269-0832-5.
  15. ^ Europa Publications (2 August 2004). International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Routledge. p. 1551. ISBN 978-1-135-35519-7.
  16. ^ Jenny Stringer; John Sutherland (1996). The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English. Oxford University Press. p. 355. ISBN 978-0-19-212271-1.
  17. ^ Elizabeth A. Brennan; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 542. ISBN 978-1-57356-111-2.
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