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1976 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1976.

Contents

Events

  • January – First Kolkata Book Fair opens in India.
  • June 21 – Market Theatre (Johannesburg) opened as a multiracial venue by Barney Simon.
  • September 9 – The Royal Shakespeare Company opens a memorable production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in the lead roles directed by Trevor Nunn.
  • October 25 – Official opening of the Royal National Theatre on the South Bank in London, in premises designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, with a performance of Goldoni's 18th-century comedy Il Campiello. Its Lyttleton Theatre first previewed on 8 March, followed on 16 March by a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet by Albert Finney directed by Peter Hall; and its Olivier Theatre opened on October 4 with a production of Marlowe's Elizabethan drama Tamburlaine, also with Finney in the title rôle directed by Peter Hall.
  • Novelist Antonio di Benedetto is imprisoned and tortured under the National Reorganization Process (military dictatorship) in Argentina.
  • Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers established in new premises at Nanterre.
  • Saul Bellow wins both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

    • Fiction

  • Émile Ajar (Romain Gary) – Hocus Bogus
  • Kingsley Amis – The Alteration
  • Saul Bellow – To Jerusalem and Back
  • Peter Benchley – The Deep
  • Erma Bombeck – The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
  • Marjorie Bowen – Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales
  • William F. Buckley – Saving the Queen (the first Blackford Oakes thriller)
  • Anthony Burgess – Beard's Roman Women
  • Ramsey Campbell – The Height of the Scream
  • Leonora Carrington – The Hearing Trumpet
  • Raymond Carver – Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
  • Agatha Christie (posthumous) – Sleeping Murder (the last Miss Marple story, written c. 1940)
  • A. J. Cronin – Lady with Carnations
  • L. Sprague de Camp – The Virgin & the Wheels
  • Samuel R. Delany – Triton
  • August Derleth – Dwellers in Darkness
  • Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny – Deus Irae
  • G. B. Edwards (posthumous) – The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
  • Buchi Emecheta – The Bride Price
  • Marian Engel – Bear
  • Richard Ford – A Piece of My Heart
  • Brian Garfield – The Last Hard Men
  • Judith Guest – Ordinary People
  • Alex Haley – Roots: The Saga of an American Family
  • Frank Herbert – Children of Dune
  • Etienne Leroux – Magersfontein, O Magersfontein!
  • Ira Levin – The Boys from Brazil
  • Robert Ludlum – The Gemini Contenders
  • Ryū Murakami (村上 龍) – Almost Transparent Blue (限りなく透明に近いブルー, Kagirinaku tōmei ni chikai burū)
  • R. K. Narayan – The Painter of Signs
  • Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle – Inferno
  • Robert Nye – Falstaff
  • Breandán Ó hEithir – Lig Sinn i gCathú
  • Marge Piercy – Woman on the Edge of Time
  • Anthony Powell – Infants of the Spring
  • Terry Pratchett – The Dark Side of the Sun
  • Manuel Puig – El beso de la mujer araña (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
  • Jean Raspail – Le Jeu du Roi
  • Ishmael Reed – Flight To Canada
  • Ruth Rendell – A Demon in My View
  • Anne Rice – Interview with the Vampire
  • Hubert Selby, Jr. – The Demon
  • Tom Sharpe – Wilt
  • Sidney Sheldon – A Stranger in the Mirror
  • Muriel Spark – The Takeover
  • John Steinbeck- The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
  • Jacqueline Susann – Dolores
  • Paul Theroux – The Family Arsenal
  • Leon Uris – Trinity (novel)
  • Melvin Van Peebles – Just an Old Sweet Song
  • Gore Vidal – 1876
  • Kurt Vonnegut – Slapstick (novel)
  • Roger Zelazny
  • Doorways in the Sand
  • The Hand of Oberon
  • My Name is Legion

    • Children and young people

  • Chester Aaron (with Irmela Brender and Willi Glasauer) – Besser als Lachen (Better than Laughter)
  • Natalie Babbitt – Tuck Everlasting
  • Judy Blume
  • Blubber
  • Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
  • Nancy Bond – A String in the Harp
  • Eve Bunting – One More Flight
  • Hans-Joachim Gelberg (with Willi Glasauer etc.) – Neues vom Rumpelstilzchen und andere Haus-Märchen von 43 Autoren]] (More on Rumpelstiltskin and other Fairy Tales by 43 Authors)
  • Adèle Geras – Tea at Mrs Manderby's
  • Michael de Larrabeiti – The Borribles
  • Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Monsters
  • Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Clean-Up Day
  • Dennis Nolan
  • Big Pig
  • Monster Bubbles: A Counting Book

    • Drama

  • Samuel Beckett
  • Footfalls
  • That Time
  • Maeve Binchy – End of Term
  • Howard Brenton – Weapons of Happiness
  • Ken Campbell – Illuminatus!
  • David Edgar – Destiny
  • Athol Fugard – Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
  • Dorothy Hewett – This Old Man Came Rolling Home
  • Alexander Vampilov – Duck Hunting («Утиная охота», Utinaya okhota, published 1970, first performed)

    • Non-fiction

  • Maya Angelou – Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
  • John G. Bennett (died 1974) – Journeys in Islamic Countries
  • Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene
  • L. Sprague de Camp – Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers
  • Norman F. Dixon – On the Psychology of Military Incompetence
  • Elisabeth Elliot – Let Me Be a Woman
  • Michel Foucault – Histoire de la sexualité, 1: La Volonte de savoir
  • Julien Gracq – The Narrow Waters
  • Christopher Isherwood – Christopher and His Kind
  • Ryszard Kapuściński – Another Day of Life
  • Maxine Hong Kingston – The Woman Warrior
  • Arthur Koestler – The Thirteenth Tribe
  • H. P. Lovecraft
  • Selected Letters IV (1932–1934)
  • Selected Letters V (1934–1937)
  • To Quebec and the Stars
  • Paul Morand – The Allure of Chanel
  • Peter C. Newman – The Canadian Establishment
  • Jean-François Revel – The Totalitarian Temptation
  • Geoffrey Smith
  • Mr Smith's Flower Garden
  • Mr Smith's Vegetable Garden
  • Arnold J. Toynbee – Mankind and Mother Earth
  • Andrew Vachss – The Life-Style Violent Juvenile
  • Simon Wiesenthal – The Sunflower
  • Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein – The Final Days

    • Births

  • February 3 – Isla Fisher, Australian actress and author
  • August 29 – T. James Belich (Colorado Tolston), American playwright, novelist and actor

    • Deaths

  • January 12 – Agatha Christie, English crime writer (born 1890)
  • January 25 – Victor Ehrenberg, German historian (born 1891)
  • February 2 – Barbara Euphan Todd, English children's writer (born 1890)
  • February 12 – John Lewis, Welsh philosopher (born 1889)
  • March 13 – Sergiu Dan, Romanian novelist and journalist (born 1903)
  • March 24 – E. H. Shepard, English illustrator and autobiographer (born 1879)
  • March 31 – Edward Streeter, American humorist (born 1891)
  • April 22 – Joe David Brown, American novelist and journalist (born 1915)
  • April 28 – Richard Hughes, English novelist (born 1900)
  • June 18 – Malcolm Johnson, American journalist (born 1904)
  • July 3 – Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Austrian poet, dramatist and fiction writer (born 1897)
  • August 29 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet (born 1899)
  • September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1905)
  • October 30 – Barbu Solacolu, Romanian poet, translator and economist (born 1897)
  • November 4 – Robert Speaight, English actor, biographer and essayist (born 1904)
  • November 6 – Patrick Dennis, American novelist (pancreatic cancer, born 1921)
  • December 21 – Munro Leaf, American children's author (born 1905)
  • December 22 – Martín Luis Guzmán, Mexican novelist and journalist (born 1887)
  • December 26 – Yashpal, Hindi novelist (born 1903)
  • December 29 – G. B. Edwards, Guernsey-born writer (born 1899)
  • Unknown date – Mark Slonim, Russian literary historian and critic (born 1894)

    • Awards

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Saul Bellow

    • Canada

  • See 1976 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

    • France

  • Prix Goncourt: Patrick Grainville, Les Flamboyants
  • Prix Médicis French: Marc Cholodenko, Les États du désert
  • Prix Médicis International: Doris Lessing, The Gold Coronet – United Kingdom

    • Spain

  • Premio Miguel de Cervantes: Jorge Guillén

    • United Kingdom

  • Booker Prize: David Storey, Saville
  • Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Jan Mark, Thunder and Lightnings
  • Cholmondeley Award: Peter Porter, Fleur Adcock
  • Eric Gregory Award: Stewart Brown, Valerie Gillies, Paul Groves, Paul Hyland, Nigel Jenkins, Andrew Motion, Tom Paulin, William Peskett
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: John Banville, Doctor Copernicus
  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Ronald Hingley, A New Life of Chekhov

    • United States

  • Frost Medal: A. M. Sullivan
  • Nebula Award: Frederik Pohl, Man Plus
  • Newbery Medal for children's literature: Susan Cooper, The Grey King
  • Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Bennett for concept, choreography, and direction; James Kirkwood, Jr. for book, Marvin Hamlisch for lyrics, Nicholas Dante for music, A Chorus Line
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

    • Elsewhere

  • Miles Franklin Award: David Ireland, The Glass Canoe
  • Premio Nadal: Raúl Guerra Garrido, Lectura insólita de El Capital
  • Viareggio Prize: Mario Tobino, La bella degli specchi

    • References

    1976 in literature Wikipedia
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