1976 in literature

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The year 1976 in literature involved some significant literary events and new books.

Events

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 – Opening of Royal National Theatre on the South Bank in London, in premises designed by Sir Denys Lasdun.^[1]
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 prose fiction

Émile Ajar (Romain Gary) – Hocus Bogus
Kingsley Amis – The Alteration
Saul Bellow – To Jerusalem and Back
Peter Benchley – The Deep
Judy Blume
- Blubber
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
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
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
Ira Levin – The Boys from Brazil
Robert Ludlum – The Gemini Contenders
Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Monsters
Ryū Murakami – 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)
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
Roger Zelazny
- Doorways in the Sand
- The Hand of Oberon
- My Name is Legion

New drama

David Edgar – Destiny
Athol Fugard – Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Dorothy Hewett – This Old Man Came Rolling Home

Non-fiction

Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene
L. Sprague de Camp – Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers
Elisabeth Elliot – Let Me Be a Woman
Michel Foucault – Histoire de la sexualité, 1: la volonte de savoir
Christopher Isherwood – Christopher and His Kind
Ryszard Kapuściński – Another Day of Life
Arthur Koestler – The Thirteenth Tribe
H. P. Lovecraft
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, actress and author
April 1 – David Chapman, music journalist
August 29 – T. James Belich (Colorado Tolston, pseudonym), playwright, novelist and actor

Deaths

January 12 – Agatha Christie, best-selling crime writer, 85
January 25 – Victor Ehrenberg, German historian, 84
February 12 – John Lewis, philosopher
March 24 – E. H. Shepard, book illustrator, 96
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, 70
November 6 – Patrick Dennis, novelist, 55 (pancreatic cancer)
December 21 – Munro Leaf, children's author, 71
December 22 - Martín Luis Guzmán, Mexican novelist and journalist, 89
December 26 - Yashpal, Hindi novelist, 73
date unknown - Robert Speaight, actor, biographer and essayist

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

Elsewhere

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 7 March 2008. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
↑ "Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers" (in French). evene.fr. Retrieved 2013-11-29.

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