1996 year of literature

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Overview of the literary years
Further events

Events

• With the WIPO Copyright Treaty, or WCT for short, a special agreement adopted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) within the meaning of Article 20 of the Berne Convention , the framework for adapting national copyright laws to the requirements is becoming more digital Network media created.
• Mandelbaum Verlag is founded in Vienna .

Literary prizes

• Nobel Prize for Literature : Wisława Szymborska

• Nebula Award

• Nicola Griffith , Slow River , Shallows , Category: Best Novel
• Jack Dann , Da Vinci Rising , Category: Best Short Novel
• Bruce Holland Rogers , Lifeboat on a Burning Sea , Lifeboat on burning lake , category: Best story
• Esther M. Friesner , A Birthday , Category: Best Short Story

• Hugo Award

• Neal Stephenson , The Diamond Age , Diamond Age - Die Grenzwelt , Category: Best Novel
• Allen Steele , The Death of Captain Future , The Death of Captain Future , Category: Best Short Novel
• James Patrick Kelly , Think Like a Dinosaur , Think Like a Dinosaur , Category: Best Narrative
• Maureen F. McHugh , The Lincoln Train , The Lincoln Train , Category: Best Short Story

• Locus Award

• Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age , Diamond Age - Die Grenzwelt , Category: Best SF Novel
• Orson Scott Card , Alvin Journeyman , The Traveler , Category: Best Fantasy Novel
• Tim Powers , Expiration Date , Category: Best Dark Fantasy / Horror Novel
• Linda Nagata , The Bohr Maker , Category: Best First Novel
• Connie Willis , Remake , Category: Best Short Novel
• Mike Resnick , When the Old Gods Die , Category: Best Story
• Maureen F. McHugh, The Lincoln Train , The Lincoln Train , Category: Best Short Story
• Harlan Ellison , Slippage , Category: Best Collection
• Gardner Dozois , The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twelfth Annual Collection , Category: Best Anthology

• Kurd Laßwitz Prize

• Hans Joachim Alpers , The Gray Eminence , Category: Best Novel
• Norbert Stöbe , The Thirst of the City , Category: Best Story
• Michael Ende , The Long Road to Santa Cruz , Category: Best Short Story
• Stephen Baxter , The Time Ships , Zeitschiffe , Category: Best Foreign Work
• Erik Simon , Category: Best Translator
• Walter Ernsting for his life's work as an author, translator, literary agent, editor, editor and initiator, special prize

• Philip K. Dick Award

• Stephen Baxter, The Time Ships , pleasure boats

• Booker Prize : Graham Swift for Last Orders , German last round
• Georg Büchner Prize : Sarah Kirsch
• Peace Prize of the German Book Trade : Mario Vargas Llosa
• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize : Jan Peter Bremer , The Prince speaks
• Prix ​​Goncourt : Pascale Roze
• Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize : Audrey Thomas , Coming Down From Wa
• Floyd S. Chalmers Award in Ontario History : Lynne Marks , Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario
• John Hirsch Award : David Bergen , A Year of Lesser
• Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize : Claudia Maria Cornwall , Letter from Vienna: a daughter uncovers her family's Jewish past
• Journey Prize : Elyse Gasco , Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby
• Trillium Book Award : Anne Michaels , Fugitive Pieces ; Nancy Vickers , Le Pied de Sappho and Alain Bernard Marchand , Tintin au pays de la ferveur
• Writers Guild of Alberta Howard O'Hagan Prize for Short Fiction : Fred Wah , Diamond Grill

New releases

Fiction

• The sunset in the west - Cormac McCarthy
• Airframe - Michael Crichton
• Anita and Me - Meera Syal
• My mother's ashes - Frank McCourt
• Resurrection of the Dead (detective novel) - Wolf Haas
• Corpus Christi - Patrick Roth
• Ecstasy - Irvine Welsh
• Excession - Iain M. Banks
• Family magazines of the Dodgson family - Lewis Carroll
• Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
• Finks War - Martin Walser
• The fifth woman - Henning Mankell
• The secret of the white monks - Rainer M. Schröder
• Making History - Stephen Fry
• The Green Mile - Stephen King
• The Mistress of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
• In the Congo - Urs Widmer
• Beyond Babylon - David Malouf
• Midsummer Night - Uwe Timm
• Cold hearts - Tess Gerritsen
• Life is short - Vita Brevis - Jostein Gaarder
• The last godfather - Mario Puzo
• Magic Hoffmann - Jakob Arjouni
• Medea: Voices - Christa Wolf
• The natural order of things - António Lobo Antunes
• The Netzflickerin - Maarten 't Hart
• The oil slate skeleton - Bernhard Kegel
• The Popess - Donna Woolfolk Cross
• Perversion (novel) - Jurij Andruchowytsch
• Regulator (novel) - Stephen King
• The red notebook - Paul Auster
• Sabbaths Theater - Philip Roth
• The Black Manifesto - Frederick Forsyth
• Mess (novel) - Marie Darrieussecq
• Silk (novel) - Alessandro Baricco
• Sleepers (novel) - Lorenzo Carcaterra
• Endless fun - David Foster Wallace
• The verdict - John Grisham
• The bird girl and the man who followed the sun - Velma Wallis
• Christmas when I was little - Angelika Kutsch (Ed.)
• The world is big and salvation lurks everywhere - Ilija Trojanow
• Like a single day - Nicholas Sparks
• How I saw the 100% girl one fine morning in April - Haruki Murakami
• A wintry journey to the rivers Danube, Save, Morawa and Drina or Justice for Serbia - Peter Handke
• Rampant - Dick Francis

Further literature

• The Berlin Key (essay) - Bruno Latour
• Three Women's Lives (Micro Story) - Natalie Zemon Davis

Born

• July 17th: Jean-Philippe Kindler , German slam poet
• Date unnamed: Rebecca F. Kuang , American writer

Died

• 0January 8: Paul Vialar , French writer (* 1898)
• 0March 3: Marguerite Duras , French writer (* 1914)
• March 15: Wolfgang Koeppen , German writer (* 1906)
• March 19: Günter Wünsche , German poet and writer (* 1931)
• 0May 5: David Lasser , American writer (* 1902)

Individual evidence