1983 in Australian literature

Drama

• Stephen Sewell — The Blind Giant is Dancing

Non-fiction

• Russell Braddon
• Japan Against the World
• The Other Hundred Years War
• Mary Durack — Sons in the Saddle
• Sylvia Lawson — The Archibald Paradox
• Megan McMurchy, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thornley — For Love or Money, a Pictorial History of Women and Work in Australia
• Lilith Norman — The brown and yellow: Sydney Girls' High School 1883–1983
• Cyril Pearl — The Dunera Scandal: Deported by Mistake
• Lloyd Robson — A History of Tasmania (Volume 1)
• Anne Summers — Gamble for Power: How Bob Hawke beat Malcolm Fraser: The 1983 federal election

Awards and honours

Member of the Order of Australia (AM)

• Joyce Nicholson, for "service to literature and the book publishing industry"
• Lu Rees, for "service to children's literature and the community"

Lifetime achievement

Literary awards

Fiction

Children and Young Adult

Science fiction and fantasy

Poetry

Drama

Non-fiction

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1983 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

• 2 December — Tara June Winch, writer of Aboriginal and European descent

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1983 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

• 20 January — Maie Casey, Baroness Casey, pioneer aviator, poet, librettist, biographer, memoirist and artist (born 1891)
• 23 January — Lu Rees, bookseller, book collector and children's literature advocate (born 1901)
• 8 February – Colin Simpson, journalist and travel writer (born 1908)
• 31 March — Christina Stead, novelist and short-story writer (born 1902)
• 25 August — Donald Stuart, novelist whose works include stories with Aboriginal backgrounds and a series recounting his experience as a prisoner of war in Burma in World War II (born 1913)
• 29 September — Alan Moorehead, war correspondent and author of popular histories (born 1910)
• 5 December — Gavin Greenlees, poet (born 1930)

See also

• 1983 in Australia
• 1983 in literature
• 1983 in poetry
• List of years in literature
• List of years in Australian literature

References