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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1983 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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Events

Arts and literature

=Awards=

=New books=

==English language==

  • Walter Hugh Boore - The Odyssey of Dai Lewis{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1383-1|page=59}}
  • Rachel Bromwich - Dafydd ap Gwilym: Poems
  • Alice Thomas Ellis - The 27th Kingdom
  • Emyr Humphreys – The Taliesin Tradition{{cite book|author=M. Wynn Thomas|title=Emyr Humphreys|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-yVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA173|date=1 September 2018|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-1-78683-297-9|pages=173}}
  • Nigel Jenkins - Practical Dreams
  • Robert Nisbet - Stories of Sheepskin{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P51iAAAAMAAJ|date=April 1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=430|isbn=978-0-19-211586-7}}
  • Craig Thomas - Firefox Down

==Welsh language==

  • Marion Eames - Y Gaeaf Sydd Unig{{cite book|title=Whitaker's Cumulative Book List: A Classified List of Publications...together with an Index to Authors and Titles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I9rfAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=J. Whitaker and sons, limited.|isbn=978-0-85021-138-2|page=288}}
  • Donald Evans – Machlud Canrif{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The New Companion to the Literature of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1383-1|page=229}}
  • R. Tudur Jones - Ffydd ac Argyfwng Cenedl
  • Alan Llwyd - Yn Nydd yr Anghenfil{{cite book|author1=Sally Harper|author2=Wyn Thomas|title=Bearers of Song: Essays in Honour of Phyllis Kinney and Meredydd Evans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RQJAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=University of Wales Press|page=304|isbn=9780708320815}}

=New drama=

=Music=

Film

  • Owen Glendower, Prince of Wales (TV film), starring David Barry

=Welsh-language films=

  • Yr Alcoholig Llon

Broadcasting

=Welsh-language television=

=English-language television=

Sport

Births

Deaths

  • 5 January - Amy Evans, singer and actress, 98
  • 10 January (in Amsterdam) - Carwyn James, rugby coach, 53{{cite DWB|id=s11-JAME-REE-1929|title=James, Carwyn Rees (1929-1983), teacher, rugby player and coach|author=Llyr James|access-date=27 September 2019}}
  • 31 January - Edwin Williams, dual-code rugby international, 84
  • 10 February - Michael Roberts, politician, 55 (collapsed in Parliament){{cite DWB|id=s6-ROBE-ADA-1927|title=Roberts, Michael Hilary Adair (1927-1983), Conservative politician|author=John Graham Jones|fewer-links=yes|access-date=27 September 2019}}
  • 3 March - Percy Morgan, cricketer, 78
  • 20 March - Alec Jones, politician, 58{{cite DWB|id=s6-JONE-ALE-1924|title=Jones, Trevor Alec (1924-1983), Labour politician|author=John Graham Jones|fewer-links=yes|access-date=27 September 2019}}
  • 23 March - David Wynne, composer, 82{{cite DWB|id=s10-WYNN-DAV-1900|title=Wynne, David (1900-1983), composer|author=Rhidian Griffiths|fewer-links=yes|access-date=27 September 2019}}
  • 16 April - Gladys Morgan, comedienne, 84{{cite book|author1=Roy Hudd|author2=Philip Hindin|title=Roy Hudd's Cavalcade of Variety Acts: A who was who of Light Entertainment, 1945-60|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iydaAAAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Robson Books|isbn=978-1-86105-115-8|page=127}}
  • 6 June - Bryn Howells, dual-code rugby player, 72
  • 23 June - Emrys Evans, dual-code rugby player, 72
  • 31 August - Iorwerth Jones, dual-code rugby player, 80
  • 1 September - John Williams, Dean of Llandaff, 76[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U170453 ‘WILLIAMS, Very Rev. John Frederick’], Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014. {{doi|10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U170453}}.
  • 9 September - Edgar Morgan, dual-code rugby international, 87
  • 1 October - Ernie Finch, Wales international rugby player, 84
  • 8 October - Ron Wynn, footballer, 59
  • 24 October - Norman Fender, Wales dual-code rugby international, 73
  • 2 November - Tudor Watkins, politician, 80{{cite DWB|id=s6-WATK-ELW-1903|title=Watkins, Tudor Elwyn, Baron Watkins of Glantawe (1903-1983), Labour politician|author=John Graham Jones|fewer-links=yes|access-date=27 September 2019}}
  • 8 November - E. G. Bowen, geographer, 82Harold Carter, 'Bowen, Emrys George (1900–1983)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
  • 15 November (in London) - Dai Rees, golfer, 70"Mr Dai Rees - Major Welsh Golfer", The Times, 17 November 1983; pg. 14; Issue 61692.
  • 30 November - Richard Llewellyn, novelist, 76{{cite web|title=Lloyd, Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn (1906–1983)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101031372/|publisher=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|date=September 2004|accessdate=2010-04-11}}
  • 30 December - Ellis Evans, Dean of Monmouth, 75
  • date unknown - Mary Vaughan Jones, novelist, 64/65{{cite book|title=The School Librarian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VHvhAAAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=School Library Association.}}

See also

References

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