1976 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1976.
Events
- June 21 – The Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa, is opened as a multiracial venue by Barney Simon.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 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.[4]
- unknown dates
- Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers is established in new premises at Nanterre.[5]
- Mary Ronnie became the world's first female national librarian, at the National Library of New Zealand.[6]
New books
Fiction
- Brian Aldiss – The Malacia Tapestry
- Nina Bawden – Afternoon of a Good Woman[7]
- Ann Beattie – Chilly Scenes of Winter[8]
- Peter Benchley – The Deep[9]
- John Blackburn – The Face of the Lion[10]
- Ben Bova
- City of Darkness
- The Multiple Man[11]
- John Braine – Waiting for Sheila[12]
- William F. Buckley – Saving the Queen (the first Blackford Oakes thriller)[13]
- Anthony Burgess – Beard's Roman Women[14]
- Ramsey Campbell – The Height of the Scream[15]
- Rosemary Carter
- Forests of the Dragon
- Man of the Wild
- Jack L. Chalker – A Jungle of Stars[16]
- Vera Chapman – The King's Damosel
- Agatha Christie – Sleeping Murder
- Jon Cleary – A Sound of Lightning
- Theodore R. Cogswell (co-writing with Charles A. Spano, Jr.) – Spock, Messiah!
- Michael Crichton – Eaters of the Dead
- Clive Cussler – Raise the Titanic!
- Robert Daley – To Kill a Cop
- Len Deighton – Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy
- Gordon R. Dickson – The Dragon and the George
- Rosalyn Drexler (writing as Julia Sorel)
- Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (TV film novelization)
- Rocky (film novelization)
- Lois Duncan – Summer of Fear
- Charles Einstein – The Blackjack Hijack[17]
- John Farris – The Fury
- Brian Freemantle – The November Man[18]
- Alan Dean Foster (ghostwriting as George Lucas) – Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker
- Paula Fox – The Widow's Children
- Christopher Frank – The Dream of the Mad Monkey
- John Gardner
- Moriarty
- To Run a Little Faster
- Brian Garfield – Gundown[19]
- Richard Gordon – Doctor on the Job
- Gerald Green – The Hostage Heart[20]
- Peter Van Greenaway – Suffer! Little Children[21]
- Alex Haley – Roots: The Saga of an American Family
- Frank Herbert – Children of Dune
- James Herbert – The Survivor
- James Herriot – Vets Might Fly (fifth in the James Herriot series)
- Gayl Jones – Eva's Man
- Dean Koontz
- Prison of Ice (writing as David Axton)
- Night Chills
- John Lee – The Ninth Man
- Ira Levin – The Boys from Brazil
- Roger Longrigg – The Babe in the Wood[22]
- Richard A. Lupoff
- The Crack in the Sky
- Lisa Kane
- Sandworld
- The Triune Man
- Ross Macdonald – The Blue Hammer (eighteenth and final novel in the Lew Archer series)
- Barbara Mertz
- Legend in Green Velvet
- Patriot's Dream (writing as Barbara Michaels)
- Thomas F. Monteleone – The Time Connection
- Robin Moore
- Dubai
- The Establishment (co-written with Harold Shumate)
- Hotel Tomayne
- The Kaufman Snatch
- The Pearl Harbor Cover-Up (co-written with Frank Schuler)
- The Season (co-written with Patricia Hornung)
- The Terminal Connection
- Valency Girl (co-written with Susan Deitz)
- Fănuș Neagu – Frumoșii nebuni ai marilor orașe ("Those Beautiful Lunatics of the Great Cities")[23]
- Christopher Nicole (writing as Andrew York) – Dark Passage
- Gary Paulsen
- Samuel Anthony Peeples – The Man Who Died Twice[26]
- Denis Pitts – The Predator[27]
- Timothy Powers – The Skies Discrowned[28]
- Terry Pratchett – The Dark Side of the Sun
- Richard Price – Bloodbrothers
- Christopher Priest – The Space Machine
- Manuel Puig – Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Simon Raven – The Survivors
- Anne Rice – Interview with the Vampire
- Tom Robbins – Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
- William Rotsler (writing as John Ryder Hall) – Futureworld (film novelization)
- David Seltzer – The Omen (film novelization)
- Tom Sharpe – Wilt
- Alan Sillitoe – The Widower's Son
- Carolyn Slaughter – The Story of the Weasel
- Guy N. Smith
- The Ghoul (film novelization)
- Night of the Crabs (first in the Crabs series)
- Return of the Werewolf (second in the Werewolf by Moonlight series)
- Christina Stead – Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)
- Rosemary Sutcliff – Blood Feud
- Bernard Taylor – The Godsend
- Mildred D. Taylor – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
- Craig Thomas – Rat Trap
- Elleston Trevor (writing as Adam Hall) – The Kobra Manifesto (seventh in the Quiller series)
- William Trevor – The Children of Dynmouth
- Frank Waldman – The Pink Panther Strikes Again (film novelization)
- Angus Wells
- The Burning Man (writing as Andrew Quiller)
- Death Wears Grey (writing as Andrew Quiller)
- The Golden Dead (writing as Andrew Quiller)
- The Land of Mist (writing as Andrew Quiller)
- The Return of a Man Called Horse (film novelization)
- Vengeance Hunt (writing as Andrew Quiller)
- Morris West – The Navigator
- Donald E. Westlake – Dancing Aztecs
- Christopher Wood
- The Further Adventures of Barry Lyndon by Himself
- Seven Nights in Japan (writing as John Drew) (film novelization)
- Richard Woodley – The Bad News Bears (film novelization)
- Colin Wilson – The Space Vampires
Children and young people
- Richard Adams – The Tyger Voyage[29]
- Lynne Reid Banks
- The Adventures of King Midas
- The Farthest-Away Mountain
- Marc Brown – Arthur's Nose (first in the Arthur Read series)
- Jack Gantos – Rotten Ralph (first in the Rotten Ralph series)
- Roger Hargreaves (Mr. Men)
- Judith Kerr – Mog's Christmas (second in the Mog series)
- Alexander Key – Jagger, the Dog from Elsewhere
- Diana Wynne Jones – Power of Three
- Florence Engel Randall – A Watcher in the Woods
- William Rawls – Summer of the Monkeys
- Maurice Sendak (co-writing with Matthew Margolis) – Some Swell Pup or Are You Sure You Want a Dog?
- William Steig
- Dr. Seuss
- The Cat's Quizzer
- Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him! (writing as Theo. LeSieg)
- Eve Titus – Basil in Mexico (fourth in the Basil of Baker Street series)
- Robert Westall – The Wind Eye
Drama
Non-fiction
- Richard Dawkins – The Selfish Gene
- William Stevenson – A Man Called Intrepid
Births
- August 29 - Mieko Kawakami, Japanese novelist and poet
- October 31 – Seth Abramson, American journalist and poet[32]
- unknown dates
- Bora Chung, Korean short story writer and novelist[33]
Deaths
- January 12 – Agatha Christie, English crime writer (born 1890)[34]
- January 25 – Victor Ehrenberg, German historian (born 1891)[35]
- February 2 – Barbara Euphan Todd, English children's writer (born 1890)[36]
- February 12 – John Lewis, Welsh philosopher (born 1889)[37]
- March 5 – Charles Lederer, American screenwriter and film director (born 1910)[38]
- March 7 – Tove Ditlevsen, Danish poet and fiction writer (suicide, born 1917)[39]
- March 13 – Sergiu Dan, Romanian novelist and journalist (born 1903)[40]
- April 2 – Taos Amrouche, Algerian novelist (born 1913)[41]
- April 28 – Richard Hughes, British novelist (born 1900)[42]
- May 7 – Alison Uttley, English writer of children's books (born 1884)[43]
- July 3 – Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Austrian poet, dramatist and fiction writer (born 1897)[44]
- July 15 – Paul Gallico, American novelist, short story and sports writer (born 1897)[45]
- August 9 – José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (born [1910)[46]
- August 29 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet (born 1899)[47][48]
- September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1905)[49]
- October 30 – Barbu Solacolu, Romanian poet, translator and economist (born 1897)[50]
- November 4 – Robert Speaight, English actor, biographer and essayist (born 1904)[51]
- November 6 – Patrick Dennis, American novelist (pancreatic cancer, born 1921)[52]
- November 23 – André Malraux, French novelist (born 1901)[53]
- December 21 – Munro Leaf, American children's author (born 1905)[54]
- December 22 – Martín Luis Guzmán, Mexican novelist and journalist (born 1887)[55]
- December 26 – Yashpal, Hindi novelist (born 1903)[56]
- December 29 – G. B. Edwards, Guernsey-born writer (born 1899)[57]
Awards
References
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- ^ "Macbeth". Ian McKellen official page. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
- ^ "Queen opens National Theatre in London". On This Day. BBC. October 25, 1976. Archived from the original on 2008-03-07. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
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- ^ Beattie, Ann (September 24, 1976). Chilly scenes of winter. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385116589 – via Google Books.
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- ^ "The Predator - Pitts, Denis: 9780816164851 - AbeBooks". abebooks.co.uk.
- ^ "THE SKIES DISCROWNED (vt - Forsake the Sky) by Powers, Timothy (Tim) (1976)". abebooks.co.uk.
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- ^ Molly Ivins (July 17, 1976). "Paul Gallico, Sportswriter And Author, Is Dead at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
- ^ Sandro R. Barros; Rafael Ocasio; Angela L. Willis (2022). The Dissidence of Reinaldo Arenas: Queering Literature, Politics, and the Activist Curriculum. University of Florida Press. p. 118. ISBN 9781683403098.
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