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The year 1996 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events[]

  • Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is removed from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas because it "conflicted with the values of the community."
  • In the United Kingdom, the first Orange Prize for Fiction for female novelists is awarded.
  • First performance of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues.
  • Peter O'Donnell publishes Cobra Trap, his final volume of adventures featuring Modesty Blaise; the first book in the series was published in 1965.
  • Margaret Mitchell's long-lost first novella, Lost Laysen, is published 80 years after it was written.
  • At the special request of Nelson Mandela, Benjamin Zephaniah hosts the president's Two Nations Concert at London's Royal Albert Hall.

New Fiction[]

  • Stephen Ambrose - Undaunted Courage
  • Anonymous - Primary Colors
  • Jeffrey Archer - The Fourth Estate
  • Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
  • Beryl Bainbridge - Every Man for Himself
  • David Baldacci - Absolute Power
  • Alex Garland - The Beach
  • Iain M. Banks - Excession
  • John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  • Thomas Berger - Suspects
  • Harold Bloom - Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection
  • 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
  • Douglas Coupland - Polaroids from the Dead
  • Amanda Craig - A Vicious Circle
  • Robert Crais - Sunset Express
  • John Darnton - Neanderthal
  • Seamus Deane - Reading in the Dark
  • Fabrizio De André - Un destino ridicolo
  • Stephen R. Donaldson - The Gap into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die
  • Ben Elton - Popcorn
  • Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones' Diary
  • 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 story collection)
  • James L. Halperin - The Truth Machine
  • Colin Harrison - Manhattan Nocturne
  • Elisabeth Harvor - Let Me Be the One, stories (Canada)
  • Nancy Huston - The Goldberg Variations
  • Tama Janowitz - By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee
  • Matt Jones - Bad Therapy
  • Stephen King - Desperation, The Green Mile and The Regulators
  • Joe Klein - Primary Colors (published anonymously)
  • Dean R. Koontz - Intensity
  • Michael P. Kube-McDowell - Before the Storm, Shield of Lies and Tyrant's Test
  • 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
  • Vladimir Megre - Anastasiya
  • Lawrence Miles - Christmas on a Rational Planet
  • Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
  • Joyce Carol Oates - We Were the Mulvaneys
  • Daniel O'Mahony - The Man in the Velvet Mask
  • Patricia A, McKillip - Winter Rose
  • 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
  • James Redfield - The Tenth Insight
  • Justin Richards - The Sands of Time
  • Gareth Roberts - The English Way of Death and The Plotters
  • Mary Rosenblum - Synthesis & Other Virtual Realities
  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch - The New Rebellion
  • Gary Russell - The Scales of Injustice
  • Al-Tayyib Salih - Bandarshah
  • Jeff Shaara - Gods and Generals
  • Michael Slade - Zombie aka Evil Eye
  • Michael Stackpole - The Krytos Trap, Rogue Squadron and Wedge's Gamble
  • Dave Stone - Death and Diplomacy
  • Graham Swift - Last Orders
  • Guy Vanderhaeghe - The Englishman's Boy
  • David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

New drama[]

  • Jeff Baron - Visiting Mr. Green
  • Eve Ensler - The Vagina Monologues
  • Pam Gems - Stanley
  • Ayub Khan-Din - East is East
  • Martin McDonagh - The Beauty Queen of Leenane
  • Mark Ravenhill - Shopping and Fucking
  • Joshua Sobol - Alma

Poetry[]

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Non-Fiction[]

  • Norman Davies - Europe: A History
  • Richard Dawkins - Climbing Mount Improbable
  • Alan Downs - "Corporate Executions: the Ugly Truth about Downsizing"
  • Daniel Goleman - Emotional Intelligence

Births[]

Rita Ivo Maria

Deaths[]

  • January 21 - Efua Sutherland, Ghanaian dramatist, poet and children's author (born 1924)
  • January 28
  • Jerry Siegel, cartoonist, creator of Superman (born 1914)
  • Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet and essayist, Nobel laureate (born 1940)
  • February 11
  • Bob Shaw, science fiction writer (born 1931)
  • Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (born 1930)
  • March 3 - Marguerite Duras, French dramatist and film director (born 1914)
  • March 18 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
  • March 22 - Ian Stephens, Canadian poet
  • March 31 - Dario Bellezza, Italian poet and dramatist (born 194)
  • April 22 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist and writer (born 1927)
  • May 24 - Joseph Mitchell, American journalist (born 1908)
  • May 26 - Ovidiu Papadima, Romanian critic and essayist (born 1909)
  • May 31 - Timothy Leary, American writer
  • June 2 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (born 1921)
  • June 14 - Gesualdo Bufalino, Italian novelist (born 1920)
  • June 26 - Veronica Guerin, Irish journalist
  • July 10 - Eno Raud, Estonian children's author (born 1928)
  • October 24 - Sorley Maclean, Gaelic poet (born 1911)
  • December 20 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist and writer
  • December 12 - Vance Packard, journalist and social critic (born 1914)
  • December 16 - Quentin Bell, English biographer and art historian (born 1910)

Awards[]

Australia[]

Canada[]

France[]

  • Prix Goncourt: Pascale Roze, Le Chasseur Zéro
  • Prix Décembre: Régis Debray, Loués soient nos seigneurs: une éducation politique
  • Prix Médicis French: Orlanda - Jacqueline Harpman and L'Organisation - Jean Rolin
  • Prix Médicis International: Himmelfarb - Michael Kruger, Germany and Sonietchka - Ludmila Oulitskaïa, Russia

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

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