1976 in literature
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
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.
- 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.[2] 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.
- unknown dates
- Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers is established in new premises at Nanterre.[3]
- Saul Bellow wins both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
New books
Fiction
- Émile Ajar (Romain Gary) – Hocus Bogus
- Kingsley Amis – The Alteration
- Ann Beattie – Chilly Scenes of Winter
- Peter Benchley – 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
Children and young people
- Richard Adams – The Tyger Voyage[4]
- 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
Drama
- Samuel Beckett
- 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
- 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
- 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
- February 3 – Isla Fisher, Australian actress and author
- April 4 - Trevor Shane, American writer
- 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[5]
Deaths
- January 12 – Agatha Christie, English crime writer (born 1890)[6]
- January 25 – Victor Ehrenberg, German historian (born 1891)[7]
- February 2 – Barbara Euphan Todd, English children's writer (born 1890)[8]
- February 12 – John Lewis, Welsh philosopher (born 1889)
- 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)[9]
- May 7 – Alison Uttley, English writer of children's books (born 1884)[10]
- 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)
- 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
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
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
- ^ Antonio Di Benedetto (23 August 2016). Zama. New York Review Books. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-59017-735-8.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN 9780198715542.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. 1978. p. 1226. ISBN 9781349036486.
- ^ Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. 1978. p. 624. ISBN 9781349036486.
- ^ Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. 1978. p. 1279. ISBN 9781349036486.