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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1976.
Events[edit]
- January – The first Kolkata Book Fair opens in India.[citation needed]
- June 21 – The Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, is opened as a multiracial venue by Barney Simon.[1]
- September 3 – Novelist Antonio di Benedetto is released from prison after 18 months of imprisonment and torture under the National Reorganization Process (military dictatorship) in Argentina.[2]
- September 9 – The Royal Shakespeare Company starts a noted production of Shakespeare's Macbeth at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench in the leading roles, directed by Trevor Nunn.[3]
- October 25 – The Royal National Theatre on London's South Bank opens in premises designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, with a performance of Goldoni's 18th-century comedy Il Campiello.[4] Its Lyttleton Theatre first previews on 8 March, followed on 16 March by a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet by Albert Finney directed by Peter Hall. Its Olivier Theatre opens on October 4 with Marlowe's Elizabethan drama Tamburlaine, also with Finney in the title rôle, directed by Peter Hall.[citation needed]
- unknown dates
- Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers is established in new premises at Nanterre.[5]
- Saul Bellow wins both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[citation needed]
- Mary Ronnie became the world's first female national librarian, at the National Library of New Zealand.[6]
New books[edit]
Fiction[edit]
- Émile Ajar (Romain Gary) – Hocus Bogus[citation needed]
- Kingsley Amis – The Alteration[citation needed]
- Ann Beattie – Chilly Scenes of Winter[7]
- Peter Benchley – The Deep
- Marjorie Bowen – Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales
- John Braine – Waiting for Sheila[8]
- William F. Buckley – Saving the Queen (the first Blackford Oakes thriller)[9]
- Anthony Burgess – Beard's Roman Women[10]
- Ramsey Campbell – The Height of the Scream[11]
- Raymond Carver – Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?[citation needed]
- Agatha Christie (posthumous) – Sleeping Murder (the last Miss Marple story, written c. 1940)[citation needed]
- L. Sprague de Camp – The Virgin & the Wheels[citation needed]
- Samuel R. Delany – Triton[citation needed]
- August Derleth – Dwellers in Darkness[citation needed]
- Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny – Deus Irae[citation needed]
- G. B. Edwards (posthumous) – The Book of Ebenezer Le Page[citation needed]
- Buchi Emecheta – The Bride Price[citation needed]
- Marian Engel – Bear[citation needed]
- Brian Garfield – Gundown[12]
- Judith Guest – Ordinary People[citation needed]
- Alex Haley – Roots: The Saga of an American Family[citation needed]
- Frank Herbert – Children of Dune[citation needed]
- Bohumil Hrabal – Too Loud a Solitude (Příliš hlučná samota) (samizdat publication)[citation needed]
- Derek Lambert – Blackstone Underground
- 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)[citation needed]
- R. K. Narayan – The Painter of Signs[citation needed]
- Fănuș Neagu – Frumoșii nebuni ai marilor orașe ("Those Beautiful Lunatics of the Great Cities")[13]
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle – Inferno[citation needed]
- Breandán Ó hEithir – Lig Sinn i gCathú[citation needed]
- Michael Ondaatje - Coming Through Slaughter[citation needed]
- Marge Piercy – Woman on the Edge of Time[citation needed]
- Anthony Powell – Infants of the Spring[citation needed]
- Terry Pratchett – The Dark Side of the Sun[citation needed]
- J. B. Priestley – Found, Lost, Found[citation needed]
- Manuel Puig – Kiss of the Spider Woman (El beso de la mujer araña)[citation needed]
- Jean Raspail – Le Jeu du Roi[citation needed]
- Ruth Rendell – A Demon in My View[citation needed]
- Anne Rice – Interview with the Vampire[citation needed]
- Tom Sharpe – Wilt[citation needed]
- Sidney Sheldon – A Stranger in the Mirror[citation needed]
- Alan Sillitoe – The Widower's Son[citation needed]
- Sasha Sokolov – A School for Fools[citation needed]
- Muriel Spark – The Takeover[citation needed]
- John Steinbeck – The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights[citation needed]
- Jacqueline Susann – Dolores[citation needed]
- Paul Theroux – The Family Arsenal[citation needed]
- Jesús Torbado – En el día de hoy[citation needed]
- Leon Uris – Trinity[citation needed]
- Gore Vidal – 1876[citation needed]
- Kurt Vonnegut – Slapstick, or Lonesome No More![citation needed]
- Alice Walker – Meridian[citation needed]
- Roger Zelazny
Children and young people[edit]
- Richard Adams – The Tyger Voyage[14]
- Natalie Babbitt – Tuck Everlasting
- Judy Blume
- Nancy Bond – A String in the Harp
- Michael de Larrabeiti – The Borribles
- Penelope Lively – A Stitch in Time
- Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Monsters
- Ruth Park – The Muddle-Headed Wombat on Clean-Up Day
- Marc Brown – Arthur's Nose (first book in the Arthur Adventure series of 27 books)
Drama[edit]
- Samuel Beckett
- Howard Brenton – Weapons of Happiness[citation needed]
- Ken Campbell – Illuminatus![citation needed]
- Athol Fugard – Sizwe Banzi Is Dead[citation needed]
- Albert Innaurato – Gemini[citation needed]
- Ntozake Shange – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf[citation needed]
Non-fiction[edit]
- Maya Angelou – Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
- L. Sprague de Camp – Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers
- Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene
- 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
- Pauline Kael – Reeling
- Ryszard Kapuściński – Another Day of Life
- John Keegan – The Face of Battle
- Maxine Hong Kingston – The Woman Warrior
- Arthur Koestler – The Thirteenth Tribe
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Paul Morand – The Allure of Chanel
- Peter C. Newman – The Canadian Establishment
- Carlos Rangel – From the Noble Savage to the Noble Revolutionary
- 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[edit]
- February 3 – Isla Fisher, Australian actress and author
- April 4 – Trevor Shane, American writer
- July 5 – Claudia Salazar Jiménez, Peruvian writer, editor and academic
- August 29 – T. James Belich (Colorado Tolston), American playwright, novelist and actor
- October 31 – Seth Abramson, American journalist and poet[15]
- unknown dates
- Bora Chung, Korean short story writer and novelist[16]
Deaths[edit]
- January 12 – Agatha Christie, English crime writer (born 1890)[17]
- January 25 – Victor Ehrenberg, German historian (born 1891)[18]
- February 2 – Barbara Euphan Todd, English children's writer (born 1890)[19]
- February 12 – John Lewis, Welsh philosopher (born 1889)
- March 5 – Charles Lederer, American screenwriter and film director (born 1910)
- March 7 – Tove Ditlevsen, Danish poet and fiction writer, suicide (born 1917)[20]
- 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 2 – Taos Amrouche, Algerian novelist (born 1913)[21]
- April 17 – Allardyce Nicoll, British literary scholar (born 1894)
- April 22 – Joe David Brown, American novelist and journalist (born 1915)
- April 28 – Richard Hughes, British novelist (born 1900)[22]
- May 7 – Alison Uttley, English writer of children's books (born 1884)[23]
- June 18 – Malcolm Johnson, American journalist (born 1904)
- July 3 – Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Austrian poet, dramatist and fiction writer (born 1897)
- July 15 – Paul Gallico, American novelist, short story and sports writer (born 1897)[24]
- August 9 – José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (born [1910)[25]
- August 29 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet (born 1899)
- September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1905)[26]
- October 30 – Barbu Solacolu, Romanian poet, translator and economist (born 1897)[27]
- November 4 – Robert Speaight, English actor, biographer and essayist (born 1904)
- November 6 – Patrick Dennis, American novelist (pancreatic cancer, born 1921)[28]
- November 23 – André Malraux, French novelist (born 1901)[29]
- December 21 – Munro Leaf, American children's author (born 1905)[30]
- December 22 – Martín Luis Guzmán, Mexican novelist and journalist (born 1887)[31]
- December 26 – Yashpal, Hindi novelist (born 1903)[32]
- December 29 – G. B. Edwards, Guernsey-born writer (born 1899)[33]
Awards[edit]
Canada[edit]
- See 1976 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
France[edit]
- 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[edit]
United Kingdom[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
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- ^ Antonio Di Benedetto (23 August 2016). Zama. New York Review Books. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-59017-735-8.
- ^ "Macbeth". Ian McKellen official page. Retrieved 9 July 2024.
- ^ "Queen opens National Theatre in London". On This Day. BBC. 1976-10-25. Archived from the original on 2008-03-07. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
- ^ "Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers" (in French). evene.fr. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
- ^ Millen, Julia (2014-10-22). "Mary Ronnie, National Librarian, 1978". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
- ^ Beattie, Ann (September 24, 1976). Chilly scenes of winter. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385116589 – via Google Books.
- ^ The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Limited. 2007. p. 61. ISBN 9788126908325.
- ^ Paul Bodine (2002). Operative Words: Essays and Reviews on Literature and Culture. p. 133. ISBN 9780595243044.
- ^ Anthony Burgess (1976). Beard's Roman Women: A novel. McGraw-Hill. p. 4.
- ^ Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 115. ISBN 1-55742-005-X.
- ^ Jeffrey M. Wallmann (1999). The Western: Parables of the American Dream. Texas Tech University Press. p. 163. ISBN 9780896724235.
- ^ Ungureanu, Cornel (1976). "Cronica literară. Frumoșii nebuni ai marilor orașe". Orizont. XXVII (15): 2.
- ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198715542.
- ^ Brent Antonson. "The Bar Exam of Digital Success — Seth Abramson". Planksip. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
- ^ "Bora Chung". The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
- ^ "Agatha Christie | Biography, Novels, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
- ^ The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. p. 239. ISBN 9781403939104.
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- ^ Liukkonen, Petri. "Tove Ditlevsen". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 5 November 2011.
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- ^ Molly Ivins (July 17, 1976). "Paul Gallico, Sportswriter And Author, Is Dead at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
- ^ Sandro R. Barros; Rafael Ocasio; Angela L. Willis (2022). The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum. University of Florida Press. p. 118. ISBN 9781683403098.
- ^ Nordheimer, Jon (September 11, 1976). "Dalton Trumbo, Film Writer, Dies. Oscar Winner Had Been Blacklisted". The New York Times. Retrieved June 18, 2008.
- ^ Dorin Tudoran, Barbu Solacolu, "Biografia debuturilor. 'Regret că n-am putut scrie nu mai mult, ci mult mai frumos'", in Luceafărul, Vol. XVIII, Issue 22, May 1975, p. 3
- ^ "Milestones, Nov. 22, 1976". Time. November 22, 1976. Archived from the original on February 20, 2011. Retrieved June 1, 2010.
- ^ "Andre Malraux, 75, Dies in Paris; Writer, War Hero, de Gaulle Aide". The New York Times. November 24, 1976.
- ^ Franklin, Ben A. (December 22, 1976). "Munro Leaf, Author, Dead at 71; Creator of Ferdinand the Bull". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
- ^ Camp, Roderic Ai. "Martín Luis Guzmán" in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, vol. 3, p. 157. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1996.
- ^ {{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature |volume=1 |editor-first=Amaresh |editor-last=Datta |publisher=Sahitya Akademi |year=1987 |isbn=9788126018031 |page=279}
- ^ Edward Chaney. "G B Edwards and The Book of Ebenezer le Page". Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Southampton. Retrieved 9 July 2024.