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

• Ann Beattie – Chilly Scenes of Winter ^[7]
• John Braine – Waiting for Sheila ^[8]
• William F. Buckley – Saving the Queen (the first Blackford Oakes thriller) ^[9]
• Anthony Burgess – Beard's Roman Women ^[10]
• Ramsey Campbell – The Height of the Scream ^[11]
• Brian Garfield – Gundown ^[12]
• Fănuș Neagu – Frumoșii nebuni ai marilor orașe ("Those Beautiful Lunatics of the Great Cities") ^[13]

Children and young people

• Richard Adams – The Tyger Voyage ^[14]

Drama

• Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Mugo – The Trial of Dedan Kimathi ^[15]
• Neil Simon – California Suite ^[16]

Births

• October 31 – Seth Abramson, American journalist and poet ^[17]
• unknown dates
  • Bora Chung, Korean short story writer and novelist ^[18]

Deaths

• January 12 – Agatha Christie, English crime writer (born 1890) ^[19]
• January 25 – Victor Ehrenberg, German historian (born 1891) ^[20]
• February 2 – Barbara Euphan Todd, English children's writer (born 1890) ^[21]
• February 12 – John Lewis, Welsh philosopher (born 1889) ^[22]
• March 5 – Charles Lederer, American screenwriter and film director (born 1910) ^[23]
• March 7 – Tove Ditlevsen, Danish poet and fiction writer (suicide, born 1917) ^[24]
• March 13 – Sergiu Dan, Romanian novelist and journalist (born 1903) ^[25]
• April 2 – Taos Amrouche, Algerian novelist (born 1913) ^[26]
• April 28 – Richard Hughes, British novelist (born 1900) ^[27]
• May 7 – Alison Uttley, English writer of children's books (born 1884) ^[28]
• July 3 – Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Austrian poet, dramatist and fiction writer (born 1897) ^[29]
• July 15 – Paul Gallico, American novelist, short story and sports writer (born 1897) ^[30]
• August 9 – José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (born [1910) ^[31]
• August 29 – Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet (born 1899) ^{[32] [33]}
• September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1905) ^[34]
• October 30 – Barbu Solacolu, Romanian poet, translator and economist (born 1897) ^[35]
• November 4 – Robert Speaight, English actor, biographer and essayist (born 1904) ^[36]
• November 6 – Patrick Dennis, American novelist (pancreatic cancer, born 1921) ^[37]
• November 23 – André Malraux, French novelist (born 1901) ^[38]
• December 21 – Munro Leaf, American children's author (born 1905) ^[39]
• December 22 – Martín Luis Guzmán, Mexican novelist and journalist (born 1887) ^[40]
• December 26 – Yashpal, Hindi novelist (born 1903) ^[41]
• December 29 – G. B. Edwards, Guernsey-born writer (born 1899) ^[42]

References

1. Nigel Mandy. "The Birth of the Market Theatre". Heritage Portal. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
2. Antonio Di Benedetto (August 23, 2016). Zama. New York Review Books. p. 5. ISBN   978-1-59017-735-8.
3. "Macbeth". Ian McKellen official page. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
4. "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.
5. "Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers" (in French). evene.fr. Retrieved 2013-11-29.
6. Millen, Julia (October 22, 2014). "Mary Ronnie, National Librarian, 1978". Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
7. Beattie, Ann (September 24, 1976). Chilly scenes of winter. Doubleday. ISBN   9780385116589 – via Google Books.
8. The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Limited. 2007. p. 61. ISBN   9788126908325.
9. Paul Bodine (2002). Operative Words: Essays and Reviews on Literature and Culture. iUniverse. p. 133. ISBN   9780595243044.
10. Anthony Burgess (1976). Beard's Roman Women: A novel. McGraw-Hill. p. 4.
11. Jaffery, Sheldon (1989). The Arkham House Companion. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, Inc. p. 115. ISBN   1-55742-005-X.
12. Jeffrey M. Wallmann (1999). The Western: Parables of the American Dream. Texas Tech University Press. p. 163. ISBN   9780896724235.
13. Ungureanu, Cornel (1976). "Cronica literară. Frumoșii nebuni ai marilor orașe". Orizont. XXVII (15): 2.
14. Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. p. 3. ISBN   9780198715542.
15. "The Trial of Dedan Kimathi | play by Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Mugo | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
16. Susan Fehrenbacher Koprince (2002). Understanding Neil Simon. University of South Carolina Press. p. 76. ISBN   9781570034268.
17. Brent Antonson (November 17, 2023). "The Bar Exam of Digital Success — Seth Abramson". Planksip. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
18. "Bora Chung". The Booker Prizes. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
19. "Agatha Christie | Biography, Novels, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
20. The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. p. 239. ISBN   9781403939104.
21. Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. 1978. p. 1226. ISBN   9781349036486.
22. Rajani Palme Dutt (1976). The Labour Monthly. Labour Publishing Company. p. 118.
23. "Charles Lederer Dead at 65; The Stage and Screen Writer" (PDF). The New York Times . March 7, 1976. Retrieved 2009-05-06.
24. Liukkonen, Petri. "Tove Ditlevsen". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 2011-11-05.
25. "Calendar. Martie". Minimum. VII (72): 44. 1993.
26. Gikandi, Simon (2003). Encyclopedia of African Literature. Taylor & Francis. pp. 31–32. ISBN   978-1-134-58223-5.
27. Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. 1978. p. 624. ISBN   9781349036486.
28. Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. 1978. p. 1279. ISBN   9781349036486.
29. "Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Dean of Austrian Writers". New York Times. July 5, 1976. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
30. Molly Ivins (July 17, 1976). "Paul Gallico, Sportswriter And Author, Is Dead at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-10-25.
31. 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.
32. Hasan, Abid (June 5, 2021). "যে মসজিদের পাশে শায়িত কবি নজরুল" [Poet Nazrul is lying next to the mosque]. Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2022-04-20. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
33. Zaman, Bipul (May 24, 2022). "ঢাকায় নজরুল, নজরুলের ঢাকা" [Nazrul in Dhaka, Nazrul's Dhaka]. Sarabangla.net (in Bengali). Archived from the original on 2022-06-24. Retrieved 2022-08-30.
34. Nordheimer, Jon (September 11, 1976). "Dalton Trumbo, Film Writer, Dies. Oscar Winner Had Been Blacklisted". The New York Times . Retrieved 2008-06-18.
35. "Calendar". România Literară (46): 6. 1996.
36. "Speaight, Robert William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/31704.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
37. "Milestones, Nov. 22, 1976". Time. November 22, 1976. Archived from the original on 2011-02-20. Retrieved 2010-06-01.
38. "Andre Malraux, 75, Dies in Paris; Writer, War Hero, de Gaulle Aide". The New York Times. November 24, 1976.
39. Franklin, Ben A. (December 22, 1976). "Munro Leaf, Author, Dead at 71; Creator of Ferdinand the Bull". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
40. Camp, Roderic Ai (1996). "Martín Luis Guzmán". Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Vol. 3. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 157.
41. Datta, Amaresh, ed. (1987). Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature. Vol. 1. Sahitya Akademi. p. 279. ISBN   9788126018031.
42. Edward Chaney. "G B Edwards and The Book of Ebenezer le Page". Arts and Humanities Research Council, University of Southampton. Archived from the original on 2012-03-31. Retrieved 2024-07-09.