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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 .
New books [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] Children and young people [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] 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 )Australia [ edit ] United Kingdom [ edit ] 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 LifeCholmondeley 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 [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] References [ edit ]
^ 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 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 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 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 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 ^ "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 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 ISBN 9780297857938 ^ Faculty of Arts, 1997, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It
^ Julia Eccleshare Obituary: Kaye Webb , The Independent
^ 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 ISBN 90-420-0630-7 ^ Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature . St. James Press. 2002. p. 167.^ Contemporary Authors 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 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 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 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 ^ a b c "1996 Pulitzer Prizes" . pulitzer.org . Retrieved 1 May 2017 .
