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.
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.
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- 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.
- Mary Ronnie became the world's first female national librarian, at the National Library of New Zealand.^[4]

New books

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
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- 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

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