1976 in literature
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See also: 1975 in literature, other events of 1976, 1977 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- Saul Bellow won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
[edit] New books
- Kingsley Amis - The Alteration
- Saul Bellow - To Jerusalem and Back
- Peter Benchley - The Deep
- Judy Blume
- Erma Bombeck - The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
- Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder
- A. J. Cronin - Lady With Carnations
- Samuel R. Delany - Triton
- Richard Ford - A Piece of My Heart
- Judith Guest - Ordinary People
- Alex Haley - Roots: The Saga of an American Family
- Frank Herbert - Children of Dune
- Ira Levin - The Boys from Brazil
- Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Monsters
- Ryū Murakami - Almost Transparent Blue (Kagirinaku tōmei ni chikai burū?)
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle -Inferno
- Robert Nye - Falstaff
- 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)
- Ishmael Reed - Flight To Canada
- Sidney Sheldon - A Stranger in the Mirror
- Muriel Spark - The Takeover
- Jacqueline Susann - Dolores
- Leon Uris - Trinity
- Melvin Van Peebles - Just An Old Sweet Song
- Gore Vidal - 1876
- Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
[edit] New drama
- Athol Fugard - Sizwe Bansi is Dead
- Dorothy Hewett - This Old Man Came Rolling Home
[edit] Non-fiction
- Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
- Michel Foucault - Histoire de la sexualité, 1: la volonte de savoir
- Ryszard Kapuściński - Another Day of Life
- Arthur Koestler - The Thirteenth Tribe
- Peter C. Newman - The Canadian Establishment
- Simon Wiesenthal - The Sunflower
- Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein - The Final Days
[edit] Births
- February 3 - Isla Fisher, actress and author
- April 1 - David Chapman, music journalist
[edit] Deaths
- January 12 - Agatha Christie, best-selling crime writer
- January 25 - Victor Ehrenberg, historian
- February 12 - John Lewis, philosopher
- March 24 - E. H. Shepard, book illustrator
- March 31 - Edward Streeter, humorist
- April 28 - Richard Hughes, novelist
- June 18 - Malcolm Johnson, investigative journalist
- September 10 - Dalton Trumbo, novelist and screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten
- November 6 - Patrick Dennis, novelist
- December 21 - Munro Leaf, children's author
- date unknown
- Martín Luis Guzmán, novelist and journalist
- Robert Speaight, actor, biographer and essayist
- Yashpal, Hindi novelist
[edit] Awards
[edit] Canada
- See 1976 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
[edit] 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
[edit] United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: David Storey, Saville
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Elsewhere
- Viareggio Prize: Mario Tobino, La bella degli specchifr:1976 en littérature
