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
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