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The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

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

Events

Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community."
In the United Kingdom, the first Orange Prize for Fiction for female novelists is awarded.
First performance of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues.
Peter O'Donnell publishes Cobra Trap, his final volume of adventures featuring Modesty Blaise; the first book in the series was published in 1965.
Margaret Mitchell's long-lost first novella, Lost Laysen, is published 80 years after it was written.
At the special request of Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Zephaniah hosts the president's Two Nations Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.

New books

Stephen Ambrose - Undaunted Courage
Anonymous - Primary Colors
Jeffrey Archer - The Fourth Estate
Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
Beryl Bainbridge - Every Man for Himself
David Baldacci - Absolute Power
Alex Garland - The Beach
Iain M. Banks - Excession
John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Brett Butler - Knee Deep in Paradise
Ann Chamberlin - Sofia; The Sultan's Daughter
Tom Clancy - Executive Orders
Mary Higgins Clark - Moonlight Becomes You
Joseph Connolly - This Is It
Bernard Cornwell - The Bloody Ground and Enemy of God
Douglas Coupland - Polaroids from the Dead
Amanda Craig - A Vicious Circle
Robert Crais - Sunset Express
John Darnton - Neanderthal
Seamus Deane - Reading in the Dark
Stephen R. Donaldson - The Gap into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die
Alan Downs - "Corporate Executions: the Ugly Truth about Downsizing"
Ben Elton - Popcorn
Mavis Gallant - Selected Stories
John Gardner - COLD
Richard Garfinkle - Celestial Matters
William Golding - The Double Tongue
John Grisham - The Runaway Jury and Hackers (short story collection)
James L. Halperin - The Truth Machine
Colin Harrison - Manhattan Nocturne
Elisabeth Harvor - Let Me Be the One, stories (Canada)
Nancy Huston - The Goldberg Variations
Tama Janowitz - By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee
Matt Jones - Bad Therapy
Joe Klein - Primary Colors (published anonymously)
Dean R. Koontz - Intensity
Michael P. Kube-McDowell - Before the Storm, Shield of Lies and Tyrant's Test
Hugh Laurie - The Gun Seller
John le Carré - The Tailor of Panama
Paul Leonard - Speed of Flight
Steve Lyons - Killing Ground
David A. McIntee - The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
Terry McMillan - How Stella Got Her Groove Back
Vladimir Megre - Anastasiya
Lawrence Miles - Christmas on a Rational Planet
Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
Joyce Carol Oates - We Were the Mulvaneys
Daniel O'Mahony - The Man in the Velvet Mask
Kate Orman - Return of the Living Dad and SLEEPY
Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
Lance Parkin - Cold Fusion and Just War
Marc Platt - Downtime
Terry Pratchett - Feet of Clay and Hogfather
James Redfield - The Tenth Insight
Justin Richards - The Sands of Time
Gareth Roberts - The English Way of Death and The Plotters
Mary Rosenblum - Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities
Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The New Rebellion
Gary Russell - The Scales of Injustice
Al-Tayyib Salih - Bandarshah
Jeff Shaara - Gods and Generals
Michael Slade - Zombie aka Evil Eye
Michael Stackpole - The Krytos Trap, Rogue Squadron and Wedge's Gamble
Dave Stone - Death and Diplomacy
Guy Vanderhaeghe - The Englishman's Boy
David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

New drama

Jeff Baron - Visiting Mr. Green
Eve Ensler - The Vagina Monologues
Pam Gems - Stanley
Ayub Khan-Din - East is East
Martin McDonagh - The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Mark Ravenhill - Shopping and Fucking
Joshua Sobol - Alma

Non-fiction

L. Sprague de Camp
- Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants
- Time and Chance: an Autobiography
Diane Francis - Fighting for Canada (Maîtres Chanteurs Chez Nous!)
Bill Gates - The Road Ahead
Charles Isherwood - Wonder Bread and Ecstasy
Howard Marks - Mr Nice
Michael Moore - Downsize This!
Kiki - Kiki's Memoirs (translation by Samuel Putnam)

Poetry

Main article: 1996 in poetry

Births

Deaths

January 21 - Efua Sutherland, Ghanaian dramatist, poet and children's author (b. 1924)
January 28
Jerry Siegel, cartoonist, creator of Superman (b. 1914)
Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet and essayist, Nobel laureate (b. 1940)
February 11
Bob Shaw, science fiction writer (b. 1931)
Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (b. 1930)
March 3 - Marguerite Duras, French dramatist and film director (b. 1914)
March 18 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
March 22 - Ian Stephens, Canadian poet
March 31 - Dario Bellezza, Italian poet and dramatist (b. 194)
April 22 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (b. 1927)
May 24 - Joseph Mitchell, American journalist (b. 1908)
May 26 - Ovidiu Papadima, Romanian critic and essayist (b. 1909)
June 2 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)
June 14 - Gesualdo Bufalino, Italian novelist (b. 1920)
July 10 - Eno Raud, Estonian children's author (b. 1928)
October 24 - Sorley Maclean, Gaelic poet (b. 1911)
December 12 - Vance Packard, journalist and social critic (b. 1914)
December 16 - Quentin Bell, English biographer and art historian (b. 1910)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Wislawa Szymborska

Australia

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Bernard Cohen, The Blindman's Hat
C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Peter Bakowski, In the Human Night
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Eric Beach, Weeping for Lost Babylon
Mary Gilmore Prize: Jordie Albiston, Nervous Arcs

Canada

Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Margaret Atwood: - Alias Grace
See 1996 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Pascale Roze, Le Chasseur Zéro
Prix Décembre: Régis Debray, Loués soient nos seigneurs: une éducation politique
Prix Médicis French: Orlanda - Jacqueline Harpman and L'Organisation - Jean Rolin
Prix Médicis International: Himmelfarb - Michael Kruger, Germany and Sonietchka - Ludmila Oulitskaïa, Russia

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