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Overview of the events of 1996 in literature
Overview of the events of 1996 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1996 .
Events
New books
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
Deaths
January 5 –
Lincoln Kirstein , American writer and impresario (born
1907 )
January 8 –
Howard Taubman , American author and critic (born 1907)
January 11 –
Harold Walter Bailey , English linguistics scholar (born
1899 )
January 16 –
Kaye Webb , English publisher and journalist (born
1914 )
[19]
January 21 –
Efua Sutherland , Ghanaian dramatist, poet and children's author (born
1924 )
[20]
January 27 –
Barbara Skelton , English fiction writer, memoirist and literary figure (born
1916 )
January 28
February 11
February 12 –
Ryōtarō Shiba , Japanese novelist (born
1923 )
[23]
February 18 –
Cathal Ó Sándair , Irish-language novelist (born
1922 )
[24]
March 3
March 15 –
Wolfgang Koeppen , German novelist (born
1906 )
[26]
March 18
March 22
March 29 –
Frank Daniel , Czech-born screenwriter, director, and teacher (born
1926 )
March 31 –
Dario Bellezza , Italian poet and dramatist (HIV, born
1944 )
April 16 –
Leila Mackinlay , British romantic novelist (born
1910 )
April 18 –
Kalim Siddiqui , Pakistani-born English writer and Islamic activist (born
1931 )
April 20 –
Christopher Robin Milne , English writer and bookseller (born
1920 )
[30]
April 22 –
Erma Bombeck , American humorist and writer (born
1927 )
[31]
April 23 –
P. L. Travers , Australian-born children's writer (born
1899 )
May 2 –
Emile Habibi , Palestinian Israeli writer and politician (born
1922 )
May 8 –
Larry Levis , American poet, author, and critic (born
1946 )
May 24 –
Joseph Mitchell , American journalist (born
1908 )
May 26
May 31 –
Timothy Leary , American psychologist and writer (born
1920 )
[32]
June 2 –
Leon Garfield , English children's author (born
1921 )
[33]
June 14 –
Gesualdo Bufalino , Italian novelist (born
1920 )
June 15 –
Fitzroy Maclean , Scottish political writer, autobiographer and diplomat (born
1911 )
July 10 –
Eno Raud , Estonian children's author (born
1928 )
July 22 –
Jessica Mitford , English author, journalist and campaigner (born
1917 )
[34]
September 21 –
Henri Nouwen , Dutch priest, theologian and author (born
1932 )
September 29 –
Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作), Japanese novelist (born
1923 )
[35]
October 16 –
Eric Malpass , English novelist (born
1910 )
[36]
October 24 –
Sorley Maclean , Gaelic poet (born
1911 )
November 27 –
Lili Berger , Yiddish writer, antifascist militant and literary critic (born
1916 )
December 7 –
José Donoso , Chilean writer (born
1924 )
[37]
December 9 –
Diana Morgan , Welsh playwright and screenwriter (born
1908 )
December 12 –
Vance Packard , American journalist and social critic (born
1914 )
[38]
December 16 –
Quentin Bell , English biographer and art historian (born
1910 )
December 20 –
Carl Sagan , American astronomer, astrophysicist and writer (born
1934 )
[39]
December 21 –
Margret Rey , American author and illustrator (born
1906 )
Awards
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
Booker Prize :
Graham Swift ,
Last Orders
Carnegie Medal for
children's literature :
Melvin Burgess ,
Junk
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction:
Graham Swift , Last Orders , and
Alice Thompson , Justine
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography:
Diarmaid MacCulloch ,
Thomas Cranmer : A Life
Cholmondeley Award :
Elizabeth Bartlett ,
Dorothy Nimmo ,
Peter Scupham ,
Iain Crichton Smith
Eric Gregory Award :
Sue Butler ,
Cathy Cullis ,
Jane Griffiths ,
Jane Holland ,
Chris Jones ,
Sinéad Morrissey ,
Kate Thomas
Orange Prize for Fiction :
Helen Dunmore , A Spell of Winter
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry :
Peter Redgrove
Whitbread Best Book Award :
Seamus Heaney ,
The Spirit Level
United States
Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize :
Helen Conkling , Red Peony Night
[41]
Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry :
John Voiklis , "The Princeling's Apology", and (separately)
Sarah Arvio , "Visits from the Seventh"
Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry :
Kenneth Koch , One Train
Compton Crook Award :
Daniel Graham Jr. ,
The Gatekeepers
Hugo Award :
Neal Stephenson ,
The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
National Book Award :
Andrea Barrett , Ship Fever and Other Stories
National Book Critics Circle Award : for Fiction
Gina Berriault ,
Women in Their Beds
National Book Critics Circle Award : for Poetry
William Matthews ,
Time and Money
National Book Critics Circle Award : for General nonfiction
Jonathan Harr ,
A Civil Action
National Book Critics Circle Award : for Biography
Robert Polito ,
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
Nebula Award :
Nicola Griffith ,
Slow River
Newbery Medal for
children's literature :
Karen Cushman ,
The Midwife's Apprentice
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction :
Richard Ford ,
Independence Day
Pulitzer Prize for Drama :
Jonathan Larson ,
Rent
[42]
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :
Richard Ford –
Independence Day
[42]
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry :
Jorie Graham : The Dream of the Unified Field
[42]
Wallace Stevens Award :
Adrienne Rich
Whiting Awards : Fiction:
Anderson Ferrell ,
Cristina García ,
Molly Gloss ,
Brian Kiteley ,
Chris Offutt (fiction/nonfiction),
Judy Troy ,
A.J. Verdelle . Nonfiction:
Patricia Storace (nonfiction/poetry). Poetry:
Brigit Pegeen Kelly ,
Elizabeth Spires
Elsewhere
References
^
Herbert N. Foerstel, Banned in the USA , Greenwood Press, 2002, p. 233.
^
Life at the Hall – Happy Birthday, Nelson Mandela
Archived 2014-12-13 at the
Wayback Machine . Accessed 9 December 2014.
^ New York Times Theater Reviews (December 2001).
The New York Times Theatre Reviews 1999-2000 . Taylor & Francis. p. 3.
ISBN
978-0-415-93697-2 .
^ Kate Kellaway (5 June 2017).
"Helen Dunmore obituary" . The Guardian .
Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017 .
^ Victoria Brooks (2000).
Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame . GreatestEscapes.com Pub. p. 158.
ISBN
978-0-9686137-0-2 .
^ David Scott Kastan; George M Bodman Professor of English David Scott Kastan (2006).
The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature . Oxford University Press. p. 12.
ISBN
978-0-19-516921-8 .
^ Atwood, Margaret (1996). Alias Grace . "Author's Afterword": McClelland & Stewart. p. 462.
ISBN
0-7710-0835-X .
^ Beryl Bainbridge (26 August 2010).
Every Man For Himself: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, 1996 . Little, Brown Book Group.
ISBN
978-0-7481-2521-0 .
^ Writer, Cheryl Lavin, Tribune Staff (6 February 1996).
"Diary of a Best Seller" . chicagotribune.com . {{
cite web }}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link )
^ Mitchell, Chris (September 3, 1996),
Iain Banks : Whit and Excession: Getting Used To Being God , Spike Magazine
^
"David Bergen's The Age of Hope is being defended by Ron MacLean for Canada Reads 2013" . CBC. Retrieved 15 May 2017 .
^ Dolores Vilavedra (2004).
Dicionario da literatura galega IV . Editorial Galaxia. p. 214.
ISBN
978-84-8288-656-5 .
^ Lord, M. G. (21 July 1996).
"Slouching Toward Brentwood" . The New York Times .
^ C. Loring Brace (2000). Evolution in an Anthropological View . AltaMira Press. p. 58.
ISBN
9780742502635 .
^ Staff writer (1996-03-04).
"Fiction Book Review: The Big Ballad Jamboree by Donald Davidson" .
Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 2015-05-02 .
^ Löschnigg, Maria (2022). "7". The Routledge Introduction to the Canadian Short Story . Taylor & Francis.
ISBN
9781000816419 .
^ Fraser, Antonia (1996).
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 . London: Orion.
ISBN
9780297857938 .
^ Faculty of Arts, 1997,
Edna Staebler Award
Archived 2014-06-06 at
Archive-It , Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Anne Mullens. Retrieved 2012-11-17.
^ Julia Eccleshare
Obituary: Kaye Webb ,
The Independent , 18 January 1996.
^ Judith Greenwood (December 2008).
"The Legacy of Efua Sutherland: Pan-African Cultural Activism" (review)" . African Studies Bulletin (70). Leeds University Centre for African Studies: 84–86.
^ Oliver, Myrna (January 31, 1996).
"Jerry Siegel; Co-Creator of Superman" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved December 12, 2016 .
^
McFadden, Robert Dennis (29 January 1996).
"Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55" .
The New York Times . Retrieved 1 January 2009 .
^
"Ryotaro Shiba, 72, Historical Novelist" . The New York Times . February 16, 1996. Retrieved July 11, 2009 .
^ Breathnach, Diarmuid; Ní Mhurchú, Máire.
"Ó SÁNDAIR, Cathal (1922–1996)" . Ainm (in Irish). Retrieved 22 July 2023 .
^ Paul Gifford; Johnnie Gratton (2000).
Subject Matters: Subject and Self in French Literature from Descartes to the Present . Rodopi. p. 159.
ISBN
90-420-0630-7 .
^ Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature . St. James Press. 2002. p. 167.
^
Contemporary Authors . Gale Research Company. 1996. p. 228.
ISBN
978-0-8103-9351-6 .
^
"The Nobel Prize in Literature 1979" . NobelPrize.org . Retrieved 2020-09-22 .
^ Contemporary Authors . Gale Research Company. 1997. p. 302.
^
Ann Thwaite .
"Obituary: Christopher Milne" .
The Independent . Retrieved 6 June 2017 .
^ Oliver, Myrna (April 23, 1996).
"Erma Bombeck, Columnist, Dies After Transplant; Writers: The homemaker-turned-humor author and speaker succumbs to complications at age 69" .
Los Angeles Times .
Archived from the original on 23 May 2018. Retrieved 4 June 2018 .
^ Simons, Marlise (April 22, 1997).
"A Final Turn-On Lifts Timothy Leary Off" . The New York Times .
Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016 .
^ B. Copson, "Garfield, Leon (1921–1996)",
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP), September 2004;
online edition January 2007
^ Severo, Richard (23 July 1996).
"Jessica Mitford, Mordant Critic of American Ways, and a British Upbringing, Dies at 78" . The New York Times . Archived from
the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 28 October 2007 .
^ Olive Classe (2000).
Encyclopedia of literary translation into English: A-L . Taylor & Francis. p. 406.
ISBN
978-1-884964-36-7 . Retrieved 17 November 2011 .
^ McLaughlin, John (23 October 1996).
"Obituary: Eric Malpass" .
The Independent . Retrieved 2 October 2021 .
^ McFadden, Robert D. (1996-12-09).
"Jose Donoso, 72, Fantastical Chilean Novelist" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-06-25 .
^
"Consumerism critic, author Vance Packard" . The Chicago Tribune . December 13, 1996. p. 13. Retrieved December 7, 2017 – via
Newspapers.com .
^ Peggy Saari; Stephen Allison; Marie C. Ellavich (1997).
Scientists: Their Lives and Works . U*X*L. p. 198.
ISBN
978-0-7876-1874-2 .
^ Faculty of Arts, 1996,
Edna Staebler Award
Archived 2014-06-06 at
Archive-It , Wilfrid Laurier University , previous winners, George G. Blackburn, Retrieved 11/27/2012
^ Harriet Monroe (1997).
Poetry . Modern Poetry Association. p. 305.
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"1996 Pulitzer Prizes" . pulitzer.org . Retrieved 1 May 2017 .