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

Contents 1 Events 2 New books 3 New drama 4 Non-fiction 5 Births 6 Deaths 7 Awards 7.1 Canada 7.2 France 7.3 Spain 7.4 United Kingdom 7.5 United States 7.6 Elsewhere

[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
  • 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 in the Blackford Oakes series
• Ramsey Campbell The Height of the Scream
• Raymond Carver Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
• Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder
• 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
• 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?)
• R. K. Narayan - The Painter of Signs
• Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle -Inferno
• Robert Nye - Falstaff
• 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
• Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire
• Hubert Selby Jr. - The Demon
• Sidney Sheldon - A Stranger in the Mirror
• Muriel Spark - The Takeover
• Jacqueline Susann - Dolores
• Leon Uris - Trinity (novel)
• Melvin Van Peebles - Just An Old Sweet Song
• Gore Vidal - 1876
• Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick or Lonesome No More!
• Roger Zelazny
  • Doorways in the Sand
  • The Hand of Oberon
  • My Name is Legion

[edit] New drama

• Athol Fugard - Sizwe Banzi is Dead
• Dorothy Hewett - This Old Man Came Rolling Home

[edit] Non-fiction

• Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene
• L. Sprague deCamp - Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers
• Michel Foucault - Histoire de la sexualité, 1: la volonte de savoir
• Ryszard Kapuściński - Another Day of Life
• Arthur Koestler - The Thirteenth Tribe
• H. P. Lovecraft
  • Selected Letters IV (1932-1934)
  • Selected Letters V (1934-1937)
  • To Quebec and the Stars
• 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

[edit] 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

[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

• Nobel Prize for Literature: Saul Bellow

[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] Spain

• Premio Miguel de Cervantes: Jorge Guillén

[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
• 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

[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

• Premio Nadal: Raúl Guerra Garrido, Lectura insólita de El Capital
• Viareggio Prize: Mario Tobino, La bella degli specchi