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Este artículo contiene información sobre los eventos literarios y las publicaciones de 1996 .

Events[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Fiction[edit]

  • Anonymous (Joe Klein) – Primary Colors: a novel of politics
  • Jeffrey Archer – The Fourth Estate
  • Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace
  • Beryl Bainbridge – Every Man for Himself
  • David Baldacci – Absolute Power
  • Iain M. Banks – Excession
  • David Bergen – A Year of Lesser
  • Thomas Berger – Suspects
  • Harold Bloom – Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection
  • Xurxo Borrazás – Eu é
  • Dionne Brand – In Another Place, Not Here
  • Brett Butler – Knee Deep in Paradise
  • Ann Chamberlin – Sofia; The Sultan's Daughter
  • Tom Clancy – Executive Orders
  • Mary Higgins Clark – Moonlight Becomes You
  • Joseph Connolly – This Is It
  • Bernard Cornwell – The Bloody Ground and Enemy of God
  • Mike Chapman & Craig Zobel – The Homestar Runner Enters the Strongest Man in the World Contest
  • Douglas Coupland – Polaroids from the Dead
  • Amanda Craig – A Vicious Circle
  • Robert Crais – Sunset Express
  • John Darnton – Neanderthal
  • Donald Davidson – The Big Ballad Jamboree
  • Seamus Deane – Reading in the Dark
  • Stephen R. Donaldson – The Gap into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die
  • Ben Elton – Popcorn
  • Steve Erickson – Amnesiascope
  • Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones' Diary
  • Jon Fosse – Melancholy II (Melancholia II)
  • Neil Gaiman
    • The Sandman: The Kindly Ones (graphic novel; ninth in The Sandman series)
    • The Sandman: The Wake (graphic novel; tenth in The Sandman series)
  • Mavis Gallant – Selected Stories
  • John Gardner – Cold
  • Richard Garfinkle – Celestial Matters
  • Alex Garland – The Beach
  • William Golding – The Double Tongue
  • John Grisham – The Runaway Jury and Hackers (short stories)
  • James L. Halperin – The Truth Machine
  • Colin Harrison – Manhattan Nocturne
  • Elisabeth Harvor – Let Me Be the One (short stories)
  • Nancy Huston – The Goldberg Variations
  • Tama Janowitz – By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee
  • Matt Jones – Bad Therapy
  • Stephen King
    • Desperation
    • The Green Mile
    • The Regulators
  • Dean R. Koontz – Intensity
  • Michael P. Kube-McDowell – Before the Storm
    • Shield of Lies
    • Tyrant's Test
  • Caroline Lamarche – Le Jour du chien (The Day of the Dog)
  • Hugh Laurie – The Gun Seller
  • John le Carré – The Tailor of Panama
  • Paul Leonard – Speed of Flight
  • Steve Lyons – Killing Ground
  • George R. R. Martin – A Game of Thrones
  • David A. McIntee – The Shadow of Weng-Chiang
  • Terry McMillan – How Stella Got Her Groove Back
  • Javier Marías – When I Was Mortal (Cuando fui mortal, short stories)
  • Vladimir Megre – Anastasiya
  • Lawrence Miles – Christmas on a Rational Planet
  • Rohinton Mistry – A Fine Balance
  • Shani Mootoo – Cereus Blooms at Night
  • Joyce Carol Oates – We Were the Mulvaneys
  • Daniel O'Mahony – The Man in the Velvet Mask
  • Kate Orman – Return of the Living Dad and Sleepy
  • Chuck Palahniuk – Fight Club
  • Lance Parkin – Cold Fusion and Just War
  • Marc Platt – Downtime
  • Terry Pratchett – Feet of Clay and Hogfather
  • Qiu Miaojin (posthumous) – Last Words from Montmartre
  • James Redfield – The Tenth Insight
  • Justin Richards – The Sands of Time
  • Gareth Roberts
    • The English Way of Death
    • The Plotters
  • Mary Rosenblum – Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities
  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch – The New Rebellion
  • Gary Russell – The Scales of Injustice
  • Jeff Shaara – Gods and Generals
  • Michael Slade – Zombie and Evil Eye
  • Michael Stackpole
    • The Krytos Trap
    • Rogue Squadron
    • Wedge's Gamble
  • Dave Stone – Death and Diplomacy
  • Graham Swift – Last Orders
  • Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy
  • David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
  • Monika Maron – Animal Triste

Children and young people[edit]

  • K.A. Applegate - Animorphs series
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley (with Rosemary Edghill) – Witchlight
  • James C. Christensen (with Renwick St. James and Alan Dean Foster) – Voyage of the Basset
  • Anne Fine – The Tulip Touch
  • Elaine Forrestal – Someone Like Me
  • Jeri Freedman (with J. F. Rivkin) – Season of Storms
  • Rumer Godden
    • The Little Chair
    • Premlata and the Festival of Lights
    • Cockcrow to Starlight: A Day Full of Poetry (anthology)
  • Mark Helprin (with Chris Van Allsburg) – A City in Winter
  • E. T. A. Hoffmann (with Roberto Innocenti) – The Nutcracker
  • Lyll Becerra de Jenkins - So Loud a Silence
  • Julius Lester – Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo
  • Anne McCaffrey – No One Noticed the Cat
  • Michael Morpurgo – The Butterfly Lion
  • Jim Murphy – A YOUNG PATRIOT: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy
  • Andre Norton (with Martin H. Greenberg) – Catfantastic IV
  • Joyce Carol Oates (with Barry Moser) – First Love: A Gothic Tale
  • Iona Opie – My Very First Mother Goose
  • Philip Pullman – The Subtle Knife (second in His Dark Materials trilogy)
  • Alan Schroeder – Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
  • Diane Stanley – Leonardo da Vinci
  • Jean Ure - Skinny Melon and Me

Drama[edit]

  • Jeff Baron – Visiting Mr. Green
  • Nick Enright – Blackrock
  • Eve Ensler – The Vagina Monologues
  • Pam Gems – Stanley
  • Jenny Kemp – The Black Sequin Dress
  • Ayub Khan-Din – East is East
  • Martin McDonagh – The Beauty Queen of Leenane
  • Mark Ravenhill – Shopping and Fucking
  • Wallace Shawn – The Designated Mourner
  • Joshua Sobol – Alma
  • Shelagh Stephenson – The Memory of Water
  • Botho Strauß – Ithaka
  • Enda Walsh – Disco Pigs
  • Peter Whelan – The Herbal Bed
  • Roy Williams – The No Boys Cricket Club

Poetry[edit]

Main article: 1996 in poetry

Non-fiction[edit]

  • Nelson Algren (posthumous) – Nonconformity (essay, written 1953)
  • Stephen Ambrose – Undaunted Courage
  • Bruce Bawer (editor) – Beyond Queer
  • John Berendt – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  • David Chalmers – The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
  • Norman Davies – Europe: A History
  • Richard Dawkins – Climbing Mount Improbable
  • Antonia Fraser – The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1605[7]
  • Daniel Goleman – Emotional Intelligence
  • Denis Guedj – Numbers: The Universal Language
  • Jennifer Hanson – The Real Freshman Handbook
  • Samuel P. Huntington – The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
  • Richard Mabey – Flora Britannica
  • Howard Marks – Mr Nice
  • Dylan Morgan – The Principles of Hypnotherapy
  • Anne Mullens – Timely Death[8]
  • Denise Schmandt-Besserat – How Writing Came About
  • Arun Shourie – Missionaries in India
  • Alexander Skutch – The Minds of Birds
  • Alessandro Vezzosi – Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance

Deaths[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)
  • 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)
  • March 15 – Wolfgang Koeppen, German novelist (born 1906)
  • March 18
    • Jacquetta Hawkes (née Hopkins), English writer and archeologist (born 1910)
    • 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)
  • 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)

Awards[edit]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Wislawa Szymborska
  • Camões Prize: Eduardo Lourenço

Australia[edit]

  • The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Bernard Cohen, The Blindman's Hat
  • C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Peter Bakowski, In the Human Night
  • Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Eric Beach, Weeping for Lost Babylon
  • Mary Gilmore Prize: Jordie Albiston, Nervous Arcs
  • Miles Franklin Award: Christopher Koch, Highways to a War

Canada[edit]

  • Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
  • Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Margaret Atwood: – Alias Grace
  • See 1996 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
  • Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: George G. Blackburn, The Guns of Normandy[9]

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 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[edit]

  • Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: Helen Conkling, Red Peony Night
  • 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[10]
  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Richard Ford – Independence Day[10]
  • Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Jorie Graham: The Dream of the Unified Field[10]
  • 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]

  • International Dublin Literary Award: David Malouf, Remembering Babylon
  • Premio Nadal: Pedro Maestre, Matando dinosaurios con tirachinas

References[edit]

  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. ^ Fraser, Antonia (1996). The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605. London: Orion. ISBN 9780297857938.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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
  10. ^ a b c "1996 Pulitzer Prizes". pulitzer.org. Retrieved 1 May 2017.