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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1976.
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.[1] 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.[2]
- 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
- 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
- Raymond Carver – Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
- Agatha Christie (posthumous) – Sleeping Murder (the last Miss Marple detective novel, 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
- 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 (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
- 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
Children and young adults
- Natalie Babbitt – Tuck Everlasting
- Judy Blume
- Nancy Bond – A String in the Harp
- Eve Bunting – One More Flight
- 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
Drama
- Samuel Beckett
- 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)
Poetry
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
- Paul Morand – The Allure of Chanel
- Peter C. Newman – The Canadian Establishment
- Jean-François Revel – The Totalitarian Temptation
- 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 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)
- 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
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
- ^ "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.
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