Literature year 1983

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

German Literature Archive and Schiller National Museum

• Bochum : George Tabori brought out his third Holocaust drama in 1983 , the premiere of which took place on January 30, 1983 at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , exactly on the 50th anniversary of the seizure of power . The title Jubilee is obviously chosen ironically. He uses historical material for the first time. The play was awarded the Mülheim Dramatist Prize in 1983 .
• Marbach am Neckar : The exhibition classics in dark times in the German Literature Archive in Marbach on during the time of National Socialism held reception German classical literature is very popular.
• Vienna : The production of William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar planned for December 1983 at the Vienna Burgtheater in an adaptation by Pavel Kohout fails because the main actor Oskar Werner commits an alcohol-related scandal at the Oskar Werner Festival in Wachau .
• Paris : The Editions Gallimard publishing house is shaken by a scandal . Claude Gallimard's son Cristian is disinherited because he fell out of favor after the loss-making purchase of the FED.
• New York : In the United States, a series of articles in Publishers Weekly sparked a discussion about the supposedly objective selection criteria for the New York Times bestseller lists .
• Toronto : The Board of Trustees of the Ontario Historical Studies awards the Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History for the first time for a historical non-fiction book on the history of Ontario .

Prices

• Nobel Prize for Literature : William Golding

• Nebula Award

• David Brin , Startide Rising , Star Flood , Category: Best Novel
• Greg Bear , Hardfought , The Enemy Within , Category: Best Short Novel
• Greg Bear, Blood Music , The music of the blood also: Music of the blood also: Blood music , Category: Best story
• Gardner Dozois , The Peacemaker , Category: Best Short Story

• Hugo Award

• Isaac Asimov , Foundation's Edge , In Search of the Earth , also: The Search of the Earth , Category: Best Novel
• Joanna Russ , Souls , Seelen , Category: Best Short Novel
• Connie Willis , Fire Watch , Brandwache , Category: Best Narration
• Spider Robinson , Melancholy Elephants , Category: Best Short Story

• Locus Award

• Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge , In Search of the Earth , also: The Search of the Earth , Category: Best SF Novel
• Gene Wolfe , The Sword of the Lictor , The Sword of the Lictor , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
• Donald Kingsbury , Courtship Rite , The Rites of Love , Category: Best First Novel
• Joanna Russ, Souls , Seelen , Category: Best Short Novel
• Harlan Ellison , Djinn, No Chaser , Category: Best Narration
• Ursula K. Le Guin , Sur , Category: Best Short Story
• Fritz Leiber , The Ghost Light , Category: Best Collection
• Terry Carr , The Best Science Fiction of the Year # 11 , Category: Best Anthology

• Kurd Laßwitz Prize

• Richard Hey , In 95 to Hiroshima , Category: Best Novel
• Wolfgang Jeschke , Osiris Land , Category: Best Story
• Andreas Brandhorst , Die Planktonfischer , Category: Best Short Story
• Michael Kubiak , Category: Best Translator
• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs and Ronald M. Hahn for Reclam's Science Fiction Guide, special award

• Philip K. Dick Award

• Tim Powers , The Anubis Gates , The Gates to Anubis Realm

• Booker Prize : JM Coetzee , Life and Time of Michael K.
• Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Gerald Killan , David Boyle: From Artisan to Archeologist
• Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Manès Sperber
• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Friederike Roth , The Book of Life
• Prix ​​Goncourt : Frédérick Tristan , Les égarés
• 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
• Premio Nadal : Salvador García Aguilar , Regocijo en el hombre
• Georg Brandes Prize : Pil Dahlerup , Det modern gennembruds kvinder
• Søren Gyldendal Prize : Inger Christensen
• Critics' prizes (Denmark) : Dorrit Willumsen , Marie
• Weekendavisens literaturpris : Jørgen Christian Hansen , Knæleren
• Critics' prizes (Norway) : Kjell Askildsen , Thomas F's siste nedtegnelser til allmennheten

New releases

Fiction

• The rise to the stars - Isaac Asimov
• On the wings of the eagle - Ken Follett
• Encounter with Bonaparte - Bulat Okudschawa
• Better relationships - John Updike
• The Chinese of Pain - Peter Handke
• Christine (novel) - Stephen King
• The discovery of slowness - Sten Nadolny
• Witches witches - Roald Dahl
• Anniversaries (novel) , conclusion of the novel cycle - Uwe Johnson
• Julia, or the paintings - Arno Schmidt
• Kassandra - Christa Wolf
• The piano player - Elfriede Jelinek
• The shop , beginning of the novel trilogy - Erwin Strittmatter
• Life and time of Michael K. - JM Coetzee
• The dragonfly - John le Carré
• The Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams / John Lloyd
• The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The black birds - Maarten 't Hart
• Our Sonja Sonnenschein - Roger Hargreaves
• The loser - Thomas Bernhard
• The forbidden continent - Georg Zauner
• Madness and rubbish - Jürg Federspiel
• If you had spoken, Desdemona - Christine Brückner

drama

• Appearances are deceptive (premiered Jan. 1984) - Thomas Bernhard

Non-fiction

• Mastering the Art of French Cooking - Julia Child / Simone Beck
• The autonauts on the Kosmobahn - Julio Cortázar

Born

• 0May 2nd: Wytske Versteeg , Dutch writer and essayist
• May 24th: Sebastian Guhr , German writer
• September 11th: Magda Woitzuck , Austrian writer
• September 18: Sahar Delijani , Iranian writer
• September 25: Sabri Louatah , French writer
• October 31: Anja Kampmann , German writer
• 0December 9: Robert Prosser , Austrian writer
• December 25th: David Pefko , Dutch writer

Exact date unknown

• Roman Ehrlich , German writer
• Carola Gruber , German writer
• Lorenz Just , German Islamic scholar and writer
• Phil Klay , American writer
• Lisa Kreißler , German writer
• Ronen Steinke , German lawyer, journalist and book author
• Darja Stocker , Swiss playwright
• Deniz Utlu , German writer, essayist and columnist
• Jan Wilm , German writer, translator and literary critic

Died

Anna Seghers, 1966

• January 15 : Ernst Erich Noth , American literary scholar and writer (* 1909 )
• January 21 : Satomi Ton , Japanese writer (* 1888 )
• January 25 : Leopold Marx , Swabian writer, poet and manufacturer (* 1889 )
• January 28 : Bryher , British writer (* 1894 )
• February 19 : Otto Basil , Austrian writer, publicist and journalist (* 1901 )
• February 25 : Tennessee Williams , American writer and playwright (* 1911 )
• 0March 1 : Kobayashi Hideo , Japanese literary critic and writer (* 1902 )
• 0March 1 : Arthur Koestler , Austro-Hungarian writer (* 1905 )
• 0March 3 : Hergé , Belgian comic book author and illustrator (* 1907 )
• 0March 5 : Otto Zierer , German writer (* 1909 )
• March 18 : Gerhard Desczyk , politician of the GDR and head editor of Union Verlag Berlin (* 1899 )
• March 27 : Hanna Malewska , Polish writer (* 1911 )
• April 19 : Jerzy Andrzejewski , Polish writer (* 1909 )
• 0May 7th : Peter Edel , German graphic artist and writer (* 1921 )
• 0May 7 : József Romhányi , Hungarian screenwriter, librettist and poet (* 1921 )
• 0May 8 : John Fante , American writer of Italian descent (* 1909 )
• May 25 : Elisabet van Randenborgh , German writer (* 1893 )
• 0June 1 : Anna Seghers , German writer (* 1900 )
• 0June 3 : Franz Joachim Behnisch , German writer (* 1920 )
• 0June 6 : Hans Leip , poet, writer (* 1893 )
• 0July 2 : Vladimír Neff , Czech writer, translator, screenwriter (* 1909 )
• August 1 : Alice Schmidt , German writer (* 1916 )
• August 14 : Rainer Brambach , Swiss writer (* 1917 )
• 0October 3 : Kurt Kusenberg , art critic and writer (* 1904 )
• October 24th : Wolfgang Ecke , German writer (* 1927 )
• November 6 : Della Gould Emmons , American writer (* 1890 )
• November 27 : Marta Traba , Argentine writer and art historian (* 1930 )
• December 13 : Mary Renault , British writer (* 1905 )
• December 27th : Arnold Kübler , Swiss writer (* 1890 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietmar Zeilinger: George Taboris Holocaust Pieces in the Context of German Coping Dramas - An analysis of the grotesque and wit as new theatrical forms of speaking about the Holocaust. Grin 2010, p. 25.
2. ^ German books . Vol. 15. Rodopi, Amsterdam 1985, p. 143.
3. ^ Attila E. Láng: Oskar Werner. A forensics. Jugend und Volk, Vienna 1984, p. 116
4. ↑ Werner Faulstich , Ricarda Strobel : Bestseller as a market phenomenon. A quantitative finding on international literature 1970 in all media. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1986, p. 35.
5. ^ Werner Faulstich: Inventory of bestseller research. Approaches - Methods - Income . Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1983, pp. 6-69.
6. ↑ Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . November 27, 2008. Accessed October 5, 2012. 
7. ↑ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1983/