* 1919 – Paul de Man, Belgian literary critic ( d. 1983 )

* 1983 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic ( b. 1919 )

* December 6 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic ( d. 1983 )

even garnered some attention outside of literary criticism, having several pages devoted to it in a chapter on the American New Right in Architects of Fear: Conspiracy Theories and Paranoia in American Politics by George Johnson ( 1983 ).

They appear in his books The Hobbit ( 1937 ), The Lord of the Rings ( 1954 – 55 ), and the posthumously published The Silmarillion ( 1977 ), Unfinished Tales ( 1980 ), and The History of Middle-earth series ( 1983 – 96 ), the last three edited by his son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien.

The literary journal The Frogmore Papers, published by The Frogmore Press, was founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page in Folkestone in 1983.

In 1983, under the sponsorship of the Osaka Bungaku Shinkōkai, a literary prize was established in Oda's name to commemorate the 70th anniversary of his birth with the aim of carrying on the long tradition of Kansai literature.

Paul de Man ( December 6, 1919, Antwerp – December 21, 1983, New Haven, Connecticut ) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist.

In 1983, she co-founded and became co-editor of the Columbia University Press's Gender and Culture Series with literary scholar Nancy K. Miller.

* Hideo Kobayashi ( 1902 – 1983 ), author and literary critic

* The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature was set up in 1983 by family and friends of the two climbers to honour their literary legacy.

His nephew, the literary theorist Paul de Man, became famous in the United States as a leading proponent of " deconstructionism ", but after his death in 1983 was found to have written articles in the wartime Nazi-controlled press that discussed antisemitic themes.

He produced several drama series during the 1970s and 1980s, including literary adaptations such as A Christmas Carol ( 1977 ), Wuthering Heights ( 1978 ), and The Old Men at the Zoo ( 1983 ).

In 1983, playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Tennessee Williams left his literary rights to the University of the South.

He is also an example of a Swedish writer who has gained international recognition with literary awards such as the Prix International Charles Veillon des Essais in 1983, the Heinrich Steffens Preis in 1986, Una Vita per la Litteratura in 1989, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for poetry in 1994, and several others.

Since 1983 he has been the literary editor of The New Republic.

According to E. F. Bleiler, in his 1983 Guide to Supernatural Fiction, " Bangs ' most noteworthy achievement was a contribution to literary typology: the so-called Bangsian story, in which important literary and historical personalities serve humorously as characters in a slender plot line.

From 1967 to 1983, he was literary director of the Otava publishing company, and from 1989 to his death owner of the Art House publishing company.

Hecht won a number of notable literary awards including: the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ( for the volume The Hard Hours ), the 1983 Bollingen Prize, the 1988 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the 1997 Wallace Stevens Award, the 1999 / 2000 Frost Medal, and the Tanning Prize.

After a few decades Hallmark Hall of Fame began to offer original material, such as Aunt Mary ( 1979 ) and Thursday's Child ( 1983 ), although its lineup still primarily consisted of expensive-looking Masterpiece Theatre-style adaptations of American and European literary classics, such as John Steinbeck's The Winter of Our Discontent ( 1983 ), Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae ( 1984 ), and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities ( 1980 ), Oliver Twist ( 1982 ), and A Christmas Carol ( 1984 ).

In 1976 he received the Branko Miljković poetry award, in 1978 the Yugoslav state AVNOJ Award, and in 1983 the literary award Skender Kulenović.

In 1983, he won Oxford's Newdigate Prize for poetry, and from 1983-5 he was coeditor of the literary magazine Oxford Poetry.

His remaining films were Death Hunt ( 1981 ) with Charles Bronson, Gorky Park ( 1983 ), Dog Day ( 1984 ), and The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission ( 1985 ; a sequel with Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Richard Jaeckel picking up where they'd left off despite being 18 years older ); his final appearance was in The Delta Force ( 1986 ) with Chuck Norris.

* 1985 ( 1983 ) is a sequel to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

First published in 1983 as a stand alone Advanced Dungeons & Dragons adventure module, I6: Ravenloft, was popular enough to spawn an Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Adventure Gamebook and a 1986 sequel ( I10: The House on Gryphon Hill ).

During this time Morecambe published two other novels: The Reluctant Vampire ( 1982 ) and its sequel, The Vampire's Revenge ( 1983 ).

Hung found renewed success in Hong Kong film industry in the 2000s, beginning with The Legend of Zu ( 2001 ), the long-awaited sequel to the 1983 hit Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain.

Don Bluth's company had been driven to bankruptcy twice: once, as Don Bluth Productions, after the disappointing box office take of The Secret of NIMH coincided with an animator's strike ; and again, as the Bluth Group, after the Video game crash of 1983 — when Cinematronics, in an attempt to cut its losses, charged fees and royalties of over $ 3 million ($ adjusted for inflation ) to Bluth's company while it was working on a sequel to the laserdisc-based animated arcade videogame Dragon's Lair.

The movie was followed in 1983 by a sequel, The Black Stallion Returns, which also starred Reno.

Ultimate's first 48K release was Lunar Jetman, a sequel to Jetpac, which was released in late 1983 and was very well received by the gaming press, CRASH magazine in particular praising what Ultimate had managed to do with the extra memory the game utilised.

* Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon ( 1983 ), the second novel in the series, is a direct sequel to Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu concerned with The Oseon, a solar system of luxury hotels catering to the underemployed filthy rich — every gambler's dream come true.

* Lando Calrissian and the Starcave of ThonBoka ( 1983 ), the most recent novel in the series, is a direct sequel to Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon concerned with how, for a year, Lando and Vuffi Raa, his robot astrogator, had roamed space.

* Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, 1983 film, sequel to The Empire Strikes Back, originally titled Revenge of the Jedi

* The 2006 film This Is England ( starring locally born actor Thomas Turgoose ; born 1992 ) was partially set and filmed in Grimsby ( with the storyline set in 1983 ) and other surrounding locations such as Nottingham, as was the television serial sequel This is England 86-set in 1986.

In January 1983, a sequel, Conference at Cold Comfort Farm, set several years later, when Flora is married with several children, was broadcast ( Part 1: " There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm ", and Part 2: " Reuben's Oath-or Seven Good Men and True ").

It was later shown in New Zealand in 1983 after the success of the sequel, with an 18 certificate.

Brinkley played her first role as an actress in the 1983 hit National Lampoon's Vacation as " The girl in the red Ferrari " opposite Chevy Chase ; she reprised that role in the 1997 sequel Vegas Vacation.

Following the success of Porky's in America and Europe there was a sequel in 1983 titled Porky's II: The Next Day.

Los Fierecillos Indomables had a sequel in 1983.

The show has enjoyed a renaissance in popularity since the 1970s through off-network syndication, a reunion telemovie, Still the Beaver ( 1983 ), and a sequel series The New Leave It to Beaver ( 1985 – 89 ).

In 1983, the Weinsteins and Lewis produced an 80-minute sequel TV special for HBO / Cinemax later released on home video by Media Home Entertainment titled The Secret Policeman's Private Parts.

The game is a sequel to Manic Miner ( 1983 ), and is the second game in the immensely popular Miner Willy Series.

In his June 1983 Playboy interview, the interviewer mentioned that because it was his favorite, King was planning a sequel, but he has more recently said on his website that since The Dark Tower series already picked up the story in the novels Wolves of the Calla and Song of Susannah, he felt there was no longer a need for one.

Billingsley also plays the character in the show's television reunion movie, Still the Beaver ( 1983 ), and the show's sequel series, The New Leave It to Beaver ( 1985 — 1989 ).

In the 1980s Lustig worked on the miniseries The Winds of War ( 1983 ) and its sequel War and Remembrance ( 1988 ).

Five years later Travolta again displayed his now-legendary inability to pick roles when he agreed to appear in Stigwood's ill-advised sequel to Saturday Night Fever ( 1983 ), Staying Alive, directed by Sylvester Stallone.