1976 In Literature

Events

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

New books

• 1876 - Gore Vidal
• The Alteration - Kingsley Amis
• Blubber - Judy Blume
• The Canadian Establishment - Peter C. Newman
• The Dark Side of the Sun - Terry Pratchett
• The Deep - Peter Benchley
• Dolores - Jacqueline Susann
• Falstaff - Robert Nye
• The Final Days - Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
• Flight To Canada - Ishmael Reed
• The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank - Erma Bombeck
• Infants of the Spring - Anthony Powell
• Inferno - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
• Just An Old Sweet Song - Melvin Van Peebles
• El beso de la mujer araa (Kiss of the Spider Woman) - Manuel Puig
• A Piece of My Heart - Richard Ford
• Roots - Alex Haley
• Slapstick or Lonesome No More! - Kurt Vonnegut
• Sleeping Murder - Agatha Christie
• A Stranger in the Mirror - Sidney Sheldon
• The Sunflower - Simon Wiesenthal
• Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Judy Blume
• To Jerusalem and Back - Saul Bellow
• Trinity - Leon Uris
• Triton - Samuel R. Delany

Births

Deaths

Awards

• Booker Prize: David Storey, Saville
• See 1976 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nebula Award: Frederik Pohl, Man Plus
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Susan Cooper, The Grey King
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Saul Bellow
• Prix Goncourt: Patrick Grainville, Les Flamboyants
• Prix Mdicis French: Marc Cholodenko, Les tats du dsert
• Prix Mdicis International: Doris Lessing, The Gold Coronet - United Kingdom
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Bennett for concept, choreography, and direction; James Kirkwood 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
• Viareggio Prize: Mario Tobino, La bella degli specchi

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