1976 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1976.

Events

January – The first Kolkata Book Fair opens in India.
June 21 – The Market Theatre (Johannesburg) is opened as a multiracial venue by Barney Simon.
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.^[1]
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.
Tamburlaine
, also with Finney in the title rôle, directed by Peter Hall.
unknown dates
- Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers is established in new premises at Nanterre.^[3]
- Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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- Mary Ronnie became the world's first female national librarian, at the National Library of New Zealand.^[4]

New books

Fiction

Émile Ajar (Romain Gary) – Hocus Bogus
Kingsley Amis – The Alteration
Ann Beattie – Chilly Scenes of Winter
The Deep
Marjorie Bowen – Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales
John Braine – Waiting for Sheila
William F. Buckley – Saving the Queen (the first Blackford Oakes
thriller)

Anthony Burgess – Beard's Roman Women
Ramsey Campbell – The Height of the Scream
Raymond Carver – Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Agatha Christie (posthumous) – Sleeping Murder (the last Miss Marple story, written c. 1940)
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
Brian Garfield – The Last Hard Men
Judith Guest – Ordinary People
Alex Haley – Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Frank Herbert – Children of Dune
Bohumil Hrabal – Too Loud a Solitude (Příliš hlučná samota) (samizdat publication)
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)
R. K. Narayan – The Painter of Signs
Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle – Inferno
Breandán Ó hEithir – Lig Sinn i gCathú
Michael Ondaatje - Coming Through Slaughter
Marge Piercy – Woman on the Edge of Time
Anthony Powell – Infants of the Spring
Terry Pratchett – The Dark Side of the Sun
J. B. Priestley – Found, Lost, Found
Manuel Puig – Kiss of the Spider Woman (El beso de la mujer araña)
Jean Raspail – Le Jeu du Roi
Ruth Rendell – A Demon in My View
Anne Rice – Interview with the Vampire
Tom Sharpe – Wilt
Sidney Sheldon – A Stranger in the Mirror
Alan Sillitoe – The Widower's Son
Sasha Sokolov – A School for Fools
Muriel Spark – The Takeover
John Steinbeck – The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Jacqueline Susann – Dolores
Paul Theroux – The Family Arsenal
Jesús Torbado – En el día de hoy
Leon Uris – Trinity
Gore Vidal – 1876
Kurt Vonnegut – Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
Alice Walker – Meridian
Roger Zelazny
- Doorways in the Sand
- The Hand of Oberon
- My Name is Legion

Children and young people

Richard Adams – The Tyger Voyage^[5]
Natalie Babbitt – Tuck Everlasting
Judy Blume
- Blubber
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Nancy Bond – A String in the Harp
The Borribles
Penelope Lively – A Stitch in Time
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

Samuel Beckett
- Footfalls
- That Time
Howard Brenton – Weapons of Happiness
Ken Campbell – Illuminatus!
Athol Fugard – Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Albert Innaurato – Gemini
Ntozake Shange – For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Non-fiction

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
- 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
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

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 professor and poet
unknown dates
- Marion Brunet, French young adult and crime fiction writer
- Jon McGregor, Bermuda-born British fiction writer
- Bora Chung, Korean short story writer and novelist^[6]

Deaths

January 12 – Agatha Christie, English crime writer (born 1890)^[7]
January 25 – Victor Ehrenberg, German historian (born 1891)^[8]
February 2 – Barbara Euphan Todd, English children's writer (born 1890)^[9]
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)
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 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)^[10]
May 7 – Alison Uttley, English writer of children's books (born 1884)^[11]
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)^[12]
August 9 – José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (born [1910)
August 29 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet (born 1899)
September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1905)^[13]
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)
November 23 – André Malraux, French novelist (born 1901)
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)

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

References

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^ "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.

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^ "Bora Chung". The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 2022-05-25.

^ "Agatha Christie | Biography, Novels, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

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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.

^ Nordheimer, Jon (September 11, 1976). "Dalton Trumbo, Film Writer, Dies. Oscar Winner Had Been Blacklisted". The New York Times. Retrieved June 18, 2008.

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[2] "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.

[3] "Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers" (in French). evene.fr. Retrieved 2013-11-29.

[4] Millen, Julia (2014-10-22). "Mary Ronnie, National Librarian, 1978". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-06-28.

[5] ISBN 9780198715542
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[6] "Bora Chung". The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 2022-05-25.

[7] "Agatha Christie | Biography, Novels, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 14 September 2020.

[8] ISBN 9781403939104
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[9] ISBN 9781349036486
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[10] ISBN 9781349036486
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[11] ISBN 9781349036486
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[12] Molly Ivins (July 17, 1976). "Paul Gallico, Sportswriter And Author, Is Dead at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved October 25, 2020.

[13] Nordheimer, Jon (September 11, 1976). "Dalton Trumbo, Film Writer, Dies. Oscar Winner Had Been Blacklisted". The New York Times. Retrieved June 18, 2008.

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