Fiction 1983

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
Jorge Luis Borges - Shakespeare's Memory
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 / Sharpe's Enemy
Bernard & Judy Cornwell - A Crowning Glory
White Gold Wielder
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
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

New York Times Bestseller list 1983

Mistral's Daughter by Judith Krantz
The Little Drummer Girl by John le Carré
The Return of the Jedi by Joan D. Vinge
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Poland by James Michener
Pet Sematary by Stephen King

Comedy 1983

Best Comedy Recording: Eddie Murphy, Comedian, Eddie Murphy

Literary News 1983

Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol)

Nobel Prize for Literature: William Golding

Hugo Award for Best Novel: Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

Nebula Award: David Brin, Startide Rising

Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Marsha Norman, 'Night, Mother

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Alice Walker - The Color Purple

Non Fiction 1983

L. Sprague deCamp - The Fringe of the Unknown
Susan Oliver - Odyssey: A Daring Transatlantic Journey
Anna Rosmus - Resistance and Persecution in Passau from 1933 to 1939
Colin Thubron - Among the Russians

1983 Tony Awards (theater)

Best Play: Torch Song Trilogy by Harvey Fierstein
Outstanding Reproduction Play or Musical: On Your Toes
Outstanding Performance Actor Play: Harvey Fierstein Torch Song Trilogy
Outstanding Performance Actress Play: Jessica Tandy Foxfire
Outstanding Performance Featured Actor Play: Matthew Broderick Brighton Beach Memoirs
Outstanding Performance Featured Actress Play: Judith Ivey Steaming
Outstanding Direction Play: Gene Saks Brighton Beach Memoirs