1976 in literature
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See also: 1975 in literature, other events of 1976, 1977 in literature, list of years 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
- 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
- Lady With Carnations - A.J. Cronin
- Ordinary People - Judith Guest
- El beso de la mujer araña (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
- The Takeover - Muriel Spark
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing - Judy Blume
- To Jerusalem and Back - Saul Bellow
- Trinity - Leon Uris
- Triton - Samuel R. Delany
New drama
- Athol Fugard - Sizwe Bansi is Dead
- Dorothy Hewett - This Old Man Came Rolling Home
Non-fiction
Births
- February 3 - Isla Fisher, actress and author
Deaths
- January 12 - Agatha Christie, best-selling crime writer
- February 12 - John Lewis, philosopher
- April 28 - Richard Hughes, novelist
- March 24 - E. H. Shepard, book illustrator
- March 31 - Edward Streeter, humorist
- September 10 - Dalton Trumbo, novelist and screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten
- December 21 - Munro Leaf, children's author
- date unknown - Yashpal, Hindi novelist
- date unknown - Robert Speaight, actor, biographer and essayist
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 Médicis French: Marc Cholodenko, Les États du désert
- Prix Médicis International: Doris Lessing, The Gold Coronet - United Kingdom
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Michael Bennett for concept, choreography, and direction; James Kirkwood, Jr. 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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