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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1976.


Events

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Major publications


Books

* Robert Drewe – ''The Savage Crows'' * David Ireland – ''
The Glass Canoe ''The Glass Canoe'' (1976) is a novel by Australian author David Ireland. It won the Miles Franklin Award in 1976. Plot outline The novel is about a man who spends his life at the pub, seeing the world through his beer glass – a glass cano ...
'' *
Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel ''Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, wh ...
– ''
Season in Purgatory ''Season in Purgatory'' (1976) is a novel by Australian author Thomas Keneally Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel ''Schi ...
'' * Frank Moorhouse – ''Conference-Ville'' *
Gerald Murnane Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian writer, perhaps best known for his novel ''The Plains'' (1982). ''The New York Times'', in a big feature published on 27 March 2018, called him "the greatest living English-language writer ...
– ''A Lifetime on Clouds'' *
Christina Stead Christina Stead (17 July 190231 March 1983) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer acclaimed for her satirical wit and penetrating psychological characterisations. Christina Stead was a committed Marxist, although she was never a mem ...
– ''
Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife) ''Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)'' (1976) is a novel by Australian writer Christina Stead. Story outline The novel follows the life of Eleanor Herbert Brent, a recent university graduate, living in London and engaged to be married. Over the ...
'' *
Morris West Morris Langlo West (26 April 19169 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1959), ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (1963) and ''The Clowns of God'' (1981). His books were publ ...
– '' The Navigator'' *
Patrick White Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was a British-born Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987. White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, ...
– ''
A Fringe of Leaves ''A Fringe of Leaves'' is the tenth published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. Plot A young Cornish woman, Ellen Roxburgh, travels to the Australian colony of Van Diemen's Land (now "Tasmania") in ...
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Short stories

* Elizabeth Jolley – ''Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories'' *
Dal Stivens Dallas George "Dal" Stivens (31 December 1911 – 15 June 1997) was an Australian writer who produced six novels and eight collections of short stories between 1936, when ''The Tramp and Other Stories'' was published, and 1976, when his last colle ...
– ''The Unicorn and Other Tales''


Science Fiction and Fantasy

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A. Bertram Chandler Arthur Bertram Chandler (28 March 1912 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England – 6 June 1984 in Sydney, Australia) was an Anglo-Australian merchant marine officer, sailing the world in everything from tramp steamers to troop ships, but who later tur ...
– ''The Way Back'' *
Lee Harding Lee Harding (born 8 June 1983) is an Australian singer from Frankston, Victoria. He is best known for placing third in the third season of ''Australian Idol'' in 2005. Career Bedrock Prior to competing in ''Australian Idol'', Harding was a me ...
** ''The Altered I : An Encounter with Science Fiction'' (edited) ** ''Beyond Tomorrow'' (edited) ** ''Future Sanctuary'' * David Lake – ''Walkers on the Sky''


Children's and Young Adult fiction

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Hesba Brinsmead Hesba Fay Brinsmead (''Hesba Fay Hungerford''; 15 March 1922 in Berambing, New South Wales – 24 November 2003 in Murwillumbah) was an Australian author of children's books and an environmentalist. Biography Upbringing Brinsmead's parent ...
– ''Under the Silkwood'' * Elyne Mitchell – ''Son of the Whirlwind'' *
Eleanor Spence Eleanor Spence (1928–2008) was an Australian author of novels for young adults and older children. Her books explore a wide range of issues, including Australian history, religion, autism, bigotry, materialism and alienation. She was appoin ...
– ''The October Child''


Poetry

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John Blight Frederick John Blight (30 July 1913 – 12 May 1995) was an Australian poet of Cornish origin, his ancestors having arrived in South Australia on the ''Lisander'', in 1851. In the 1987 recording ''John Blight'', he describes his Cornish backgro ...
– ''Selected Poems, 1939-1975'' *
Geoffrey Lehmann Geoffrey Lehmann (born 28 June 1940) is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer. Lehmann grew up in McMahon's Point, Sydney, and attended the Shore School in North Sydney. He graduated in arts and law from the University of Sydn ...
– ''Selected Poems'' * Les Murray ** "The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle" ** ''Selected Poems: The Vernacular Republic'' * Judith Wright – ''Fourth Quarter''


Drama

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Dorothy Hewett Dorothy Coade Hewett (21 May 1923 – 25 August 2002) was an Australian playwright, poet and author, and a romantic feminist icon. In writing and in her life, Hewett was an experimenter. As her circumstances and beliefs changed, she progressed ...
– '' The Tatty Hollow Story'' *
Steve J. Spears Steven John Peter Spears (22 January 1951 – 16 October 2007) was an Australian playwright, actor, writer and singer. His most famous work was '' The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin'' (1976). He was cited as "one of Australia's most celebrated p ...
– ''
The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin ''The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin'' is a "one-hander" Play (theatre), play by Australian playwright, author and singer Steve J. Spears (1951 – 2007). It premiered at the Nimrod Theatre in Sydney, Australia, Sydney, Australia in 1976. The pe ...
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Ric Throssell Ric Throssell (10 May 192220 April 1999) was an Australian diplomat and author whose writings included novels, plays, film and television scripts, and memoirs. For most of his professional life as a diplomat his career was dogged by unproven a ...
– '' For Valour'' (first performed 1960) * David Williamson ** '' The Club'' ** ''
A Handful of Friends ''A Handful of Friends'' is a 1976 play by David Williamson. It was written for the South Australian Theatre Company. Williamson said in an interview with Quadrant magazine that he had based one of the characters on Williamson's wife, Kristin, ...
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Non-fiction

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Donald Horne Donald Richmond Horne (26 December 1921 – 8 September 2005) was an Australian journalist, writer, social critic, and academic who became one of Australia's best known public intellectuals, from the 1960s until his death. Horne was a proli ...
– ''Death of the Lucky Country'' *
Gavin Souter Gavin Geoffrey Souter AO (born 2 May 1929) is an Australian journalist and historian. He was born in Sydney, the son of a bank manager, Archibald Souter and Roma Souter, wasPhilip O'Brien, "Spinning words of gold", ''The Canberra Times'', 26 ...
– ''Lion and Kangaroo'' * Hugh Stretton – ''Capitalism, Socialism and the Environment''


Awards and honours


Lifetime achievement


Literary


Fiction


Children and Young Adult


Poetry


Non-fiction


Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1976 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death. * 26 May — Marieke Hardy, writer Unknown date *
Kate Morton Kate Morton (born 1976) is an Australian author. Morton has sold more than 16 million books in 42 countries, making her one of Australia's "biggest publishing exports". The author has written six novels: '' The House at Riverton'' (The Shifting ...
, novelist


Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by
surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
) of deaths in 1976 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth. * 18 February —
Catherine Shepherd Catherine Shepherd is an English comedic actress, writer and director. Career In the early 2000s Shepherd appeared in several BBC Radio 4 comedies, as Daisy in the sitcom ''Think the Unthinkable'' alongside Marcus Brigstocke and David Mitchell, ...
, playwright (born
1901 Events January * January 1 – The Crown colony, British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Western Australia Federation of Australia, federate as the Australia, ...
) * 16 April –
Nina Murdoch Madoline "Nina" Murdoch (19 October 1890 – 16 April 1976), also known by her married name Madoline Brown and pen name Manin, was an Australian writer and journalist, best known for her biographies and poetry, and travel writings, as well as ...
, poet and biographer (born
1890 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa. ** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River. * January 2 ** The steamship ...
) * 2 June –
Lyndall Hadow Lyndall Hadow (1903–1976) was a Western Australian short story writer and journalist. The Lyndall Hadow Annual Award for Short Stories was created by the Fellowship of Australian Writers Western Australia (FAWWA) in 1977 to honour her. Life ...
, short story writer and journalist (born
1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having been ...
) * 6 August —
George Farwell George Michell Farwell (3 October 1911 – 6 August 1976) was an English-born Australian novelist, freelance journalist, broadcaster and travel writer. Early career Farwell was born in Bath, Somerset, England. and was educated at a number of dif ...
, novelist (born
1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...
) * 14 August — James Devaney, novelist (born
1890 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa. ** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River. * January 2 ** The steamship ...
) * 22 August – Ella McFadyen, poet (born
1887 Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Har ...
) * 15 October – James McAuley, poet (born
1917 Events Below, the events of World War I have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 9 – WWI – Battle of Rafa: The last substantial Ottoman Army garrison on the Sinai Peninsula is captured by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force's ...
) * 23 October – Ian Mudie, poet (born
1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...
)


See also

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1976 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1976. Events *January – The first Kolkata Book Fair opens in India. * June 21 – The Market Theatre (Johannesburg) is opened as a multiracial venue by Barney Sim ...
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1976 in poetry Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 1 – Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution, including "Two Birds: A ...
*
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* List of years in literature


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