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

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Non-fiction
5 Births
6 Deaths
7 Awards

Events

Saul Bellow won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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

New drama

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

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
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
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

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

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