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EVENTS

Saul Bellow won both the Nobel Prize For Literature and the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction .

NEW BOOKS

'' 1876 '' - Gore Vidal

'' The Alteration '' - Kingsley Amis

'' Blubber '' - Judy Blume

'' The Canadian Establishment '' - Peter C. Newman

'' The Dark Side Of The Sun '' - Terry Pratchett

'' The Deep '' - Peter Benchley

'' Dolores '' - Jacqueline Susann

'' Falstaff '' - Robert Nye

'' Flight To Canada '' - Ishmael Reed

'' The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank '' - Erma Bombeck

'' Infants Of The Spring '' - Anthony Powell

'' Inferno '' - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

'' Just An Old Sweet Song '' - Melvin Van Peebles

'' Lady With Carnations '' - A.J. Cronin

'' Ordinary People '' - Judith Guest

'' El Beso De La Mujer Araña '' ( Kiss Of The Spider Woman ) - Manuel Puig

'' A Piece Of My Heart '' - Richard Ford

'' Roots '' - Alex Haley

'' Slapstick Or Lonesome No More! '' - Kurt Vonnegut

'' Sleeping Murder '' - Agatha Christie

'' A Stranger In The Mirror '' - Sidney Sheldon

'' The Sunflower '' - Simon Wiesenthal

''The Takeover'' - Muriel Spark

'' Tales Of A Fourth Grade Nothing '' - Judy Blume

'' To Jerusalem And Back '' - Saul Bellow

'' Trinity '' - Leon Uris

'' Triton '' - Samuel R. Delany

NEW DRAMA

Athol Fugard - '' Sizwe Bansi Is Dead ''

Dorothy Hewett - ''This Old Man Came Rolling Home''

NON-FICTION

Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein - '' The Final Days ''

BIRTHS

February 3 - Isla Fisher , actress and author

DEATHS

January 12 - Agatha Christie , best-selling crime writer

February 12 - John Lewis , philosopher

April 28 - Richard Hughes , novelist

March 24 - E. H. Shepard , book illustrator

March 31 - Edward Streeter , humorist

September 10 - Dalton Trumbo , novelist and screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten

December 21 - Munro Leaf , children's author

''date unknown'' - Yashpal , Hindi novelist

''date unknown'' - Robert Speaight , actor, biographer and essayist

AWARDS

, ''Saville''

See 1976 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' Man Plus ''

, ''The Grey King''

, ''Les Flamboyants''

, ''Les États du désert''

, ''The Gold Coronet'' - United Kingdom

for concept, choreography, and direction; James Kirkwood, Jr. for book, Marvin Hamlisch for lyrics, Nicholas Dante for music, '' A Chorus Line ''

- ''Humboldt's Gift''

: ''Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror''

, ''La bella degli specchi''