Literature year 1976
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Overview of the literary years
Further events
Events
Literary prizes
- Frederik Pohl , Man Plus , Mensch + also: Der Plus-Mensch , Category: Best Novel
- James Tiptree, Jr. , Houston, Houston, Do You Read? , Houston, Houston, please report! , Category: Best Short Novel
- Isaac Asimov , The Bicentennial Man , The Bicentennial , Category: Best Narrative
- Charles L. Grant , A Crowd of Shadows , Deadly Shadows , Category: Best Short Story
- Joe Haldeman , The Forever War , The Eternal War , Category: Best Novel
- Roger Zelazny , Home Is the Hangman , The hangman has returned home too: Home is the hangman , Category: Best short novel
- Larry Niven , The Borderland of Sol , Das Grenzland von Sol also: In the borderland of the sun , Category: Best story
- Fritz Leiber , Catch That Zeppelin! ' Don't miss the zeppelin! , Category: Best Short Story
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War , The Eternal War , Category: Best Novel
- Lisa Tuttle & George RR Martin , The Storms of Windhaven , Sturm über Windhaven , Category: Best Short Novel
- Ursula K. Le Guin , The New Atlantis , Best Story
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Day Before the Revolution , Category: Best Short Story
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters , Category: Best Collection
- Roger Elwood & Robert Silverberg , Epoch , Category: Best Anthology
New releases
- Caius in a fix - Henry Winterfeld
- Dorothea Merz - Tankred Dorst
- Great solo for Anton - Herbert Rosendorfer
- The cellar. A withdrawal - Thomas Bernhard
- Childhood Pattern - Christa Wolf
- One night (German first edition) - Wassil Bykau
- Planet of the have-nots (German first edition) - Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Policeman Murderer (German first edition) - Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö
- Sleep in the Sun (German first edition) - Adolfo Bioy Casares
- The cold - Stanisław Lem
- Black Mists - Michael Crichton
Born
- January 1: Nguyen Ngoc Tu , Vietnamese writer
- January 18: Tamara Bach , German writer
- February 19: Maxime Chattam , French writer
- March 20: Jens Petersen , German writer and doctor
- April 15: Aare Pilv , Estonian literary scholar and writer
- May 29: Hakan Günday , Turkish writer
- June 5: Thorsten Nagelschmidt , German musician and writer
- July 2nd: Ahmad Mansour , German psychologist and author
- July 3: Jana Hensel , German author
- July 30: Zukiswa Wanner , South African writer
- October 19: Monica Isakstuen , Norwegian writer
- October 22: Jonas Lüscher , Swiss writer and essayist
- November 17: Miguel Syjuco , Filipino author
Exact date unknown
- Mansura Eseddin , Egyptian journalist and writer
- Peggy Mädler , German writer
- Eimear McBride , British writer
- Steve Mosby , British crime writer
Died
- January 12: Agatha Christie , British writer
- January 22: Charles Reznikoff , American poet and writer
- January 29th: Reinhard Federmann , Austrian writer and translator
- February 29: Paul Schallück , German writer
- March 13: Max Tau , German writer, editor and publisher
- March 14th: Martha Saalfeld , German poet and writer
- March 24th: Ernest Shepard , British illustrator
- April 9: Phil Ochs , American songwriter
- April 10: Ramón Otero Pedrayo , Spanish-Galician writer
- April 17th: Soma Morgenstern , Austrian writer
- April 28: Richard Hughes , British novelist and radio play writer
- April 28: Eugen Roth , German poet
- May 9: Ulrike Meinhof , German feature writer and essayist
- May 26th: Martin Heidegger , German philosopher
- June 2nd: Fred von Hoerschelmann , German writer and radio play author
- June 9: Gerd Gaiser , German writer
- July 3: Alexander Lernet-Holenia , Austrian writer
- July 15: Paul Gallico , American writer
- July 30th: Rudolf Bultmann , German theologian and author
- August 9: José Lezama Lima , Cuban poet and writer
- August 14: Werner Bräunig , German writer
- August 25: Eyvind Johnson , Swedish writer and Nobel Prize winner
- August 28: Werner Krauss , German Romanist
- October 12: Hertha Koenig , German poet and writer
- October 25: Raymond Queneau , French poet and writer
- November 6: Václav Čtvrtek , Czech writer
- November 23: André Malraux , French writer and politician
- November 27th: Herbert Kaufmann , German ethnologist and writer
