1996 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1996.

Events[]

  • July 8 – Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and 30 other books are struck from an English reading list in Lindale, Texas, as they "conflict with the values of the community."[1]
  • July 11 – As requested by Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Zephaniah hosts the President's Two Nations Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.[2]
  • October 3 – The first performance is held in New York of Eve Ensler's episodic feminist play The Vagina Monologues.[3]
  • unknown dates
    • In the UK, the first Orange Prize for Fiction for female novelists goes to Helen Dunmore for A Spell of Winter.[4]
    • Peter O'Donnell publishes Cobra Trap, a final volume featuring Modesty Blaise. The first appeared in 1965.
    • Margaret Mitchell's lost first novella, Lost Laysen, is published, 80 years after it was written.[5]
    • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Romance Writings, including her novel Princess Docile, are first published 234 years after her death.[6]

New books[]

Fiction[]

Children and young people[]

Drama[]

Poetry[]

Main article: 1996 in 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)
  • January 21 – Efua Sutherland, Ghanaian dramatist, poet and children's author (born 1924)
  • January 27 – Barbara Skelton, English fiction writer, memoirist and literary figure (born 1916)
  • January 28
    • Jerry Siegel, American cartoonist (born 1914)
    • Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (myocardial infarction, born 1940)
  • February 11
    • Bob Shaw, Northern Irish science fiction writer (born 1931)
    • Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (born 1930)
  • February 18 – Cathal Ó Sándair, Irish-language novelist (born 1922)
  • March 3 – Marguerite Duras, French dramatist and film director (born 1914)[13]
  • March 15 – Wolfgang Koeppen, German novelist (born 1906)
  • March 18
    • Jacquetta Hawkes (née Hopkins), English writer and archeologist (born 1910)[14]
    • Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer and Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
  • March 22 – Ian Stephens, Canadian poet (year of birth not known)
  • 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)
  • April 22 – Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (born 1927)
  • April 23 – P. L. Travers, Australian-born children's writer (born 1899)
  • May 8 – Larry Levis, American poet, author, and critic (born 1946)
  • May 24 – Joseph Mitchell, American journalist (born 1908)
  • May 26
    • Ovidiu Papadima, Romanian critic and essayist (born 1909)
    • Margaret Douglas-Home, English writer and musician (born 1906)
  • May 31 – Timothy Leary, American writer (born 1920)
  • June 2 – Leon Garfield, English children's author (born 1921)[15]
  • 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, Anglo-American author, journalist and campaigner (born 1917)
  • September 29 – Shusaku Endo (遠藤周作), Japanese novelist (born 1923)
  • October 16 – Eric Malpass, English novelist (born 1910)
  • October 24 – Sorley Maclean, Gaelic poet (born 1911)
  • December 9 – Diana Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter (born 1908)
  • December 12 – Vance Packard, American journalist and social critic (born 1914)
  • December 16 – Quentin Bell, English biographer and art historian (born 1910)
  • December 20 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist and writer (born 1934)[16]

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

References[]

  1. ^ Herbert N. Foerstel, Banned in the USA, Greenwood Press, 2002, p. 233.
  2. ^ Life at the Hall – Happy Birthday, Nelson Mandela Archived 2014-12-13 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 9 December 2014.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Kate Kellaway (5 June 2017). "Helen Dunmore obituary". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 9 June 2017. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  5. ^ Victoria Brooks (2000). Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame. GreatestEscapes.com Pub. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-9686137-0-2.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Mitchell, Chris (September 3, 1996), Iain Banks : Whit and Excession: Getting Used To Being God, Spike Magazine
  9. ^ "David Bergen's The Age of Hope is being defended by Ron MacLean for Canada Reads 2013". CBC. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  10. ^ Dolores Vilavedra (2004). Dicionario da literatura galega IV. Editorial Galaxia. p. 214. ISBN 978-84-8288-656-5.
  11. ^ Fraser, Antonia (1996). The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605. London: Orion. ISBN 9780297857938.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Contemporary Authors. Gale Research Company. 1996. p. 228. ISBN 978-0-8103-9351-6.
  15. ^ B. Copson, "Garfield, Leon (1921–1996)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP), September 2004; online edition January 2007
  16. ^ Peggy Saari; Stephen Allison; Marie C. Ellavich (1997). Scientists: Their Lives and Works. U*X*L. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-7876-1874-2.
  17. ^ 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
  18. ^ Harriet Monroe (1997). Poetry. Modern Poetry Association. p. 305.
  19. ^ Jump up to: a b c "1996 Pulitzer Prizes". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 1 May 2017.
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