1971 in literature
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[edit] Events
- The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins England's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.
[edit] New books
- William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
- Richard Brautigan - Revenge of the Lawn
- Albert Camus - A Happy Death (La Mort heureuse)
- Gwen Davis - Touching
- E. L. Doctorow - The Book of Daniel
- Frederick Forsyth - The Day of the Jackal
- Dick Francis - Bonecrack
- Ernest J. Gaines - The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- George Garrett - Death of the Fox
- John Gardner - Grendel (novel)
- Arthur Hailey - Wheels
- Anna Kavan - A Scarcity of Love
- Jerzy Kosinski - Being There
- Cameron Langford - The Winter of the Fisher
- John le Carré - The Naive and Sentimental Lover
- Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
- Stanisław Lem - Dzienniki gwiazdowe
- Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Choice of Magic
- James A. Michener - The Drifters
- Nicholas Mosley - Natalie Natalia
- Alice Munro - Lives of Girls and Women
- V. S. Naipaul - In a Free State
- William F. NolanSpace for Hire
- Rosamunde Pilcher - The End of Summer
- Anthony Powell - Books Do Furnish a Room
- John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
- Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro - Sergeant Getulio
- Mordecai Richler - St. Urbain's Horseman
- Harold Robbins - The Betsy
- Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
- Irving Stone - The Passions of the Mind
- Gay Talese - Honor Thy Father
- Thomas Tryon - The Other
- John Updike - Rabbit Redux
- Herman Wouk - The Winds of War
[edit] New drama
- Peter Handke - Der Ritt über den Bodensee ("The Ride Across Lake Constance")
- John Mortimer - A Voyage Round My Father
[edit] Poetry
- Maya Angelou - Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die
- Ted Hughes - Crow
- Alan Llwyd - Y March Hud ("The Magic Horse")
[edit] Non-fiction
- Pierre Berton - The Last Spike
- Brian J. Ford - Nonscience
- Robert Foster - The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
- Joan Garrity - The Sensuous Woman
- Xaviera Hollander - The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
- Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel - Hess: A Biography
- B. F. Skinner - Beyond Freedom and Dignity
- Pierre Vallières - White Niggers of America (translation)
[edit] Births
- January 16 - Helen Darville, writer
- March 10 - Ugonna Wachuku, poet, creative writer, author
- May 28 - Richard Gunn, journalist and motoring writer
- July 17 - Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer
- December 19 - Tristan Egolf, novelist (d. 2005)
[edit] Deaths
- March 5 - Allan Nevins, journalist
- March 7 - Stevie Smith, poet
- April 10 - André Billy, French author
- May 19 - Ogden Nash, poet and humorist
- May 20 - Waldo Williams, Welsh language poet
- June 1 - Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian
- June 4 - Georg Lukács, philosopher and critic
- June 6 - Edward Andrade, poet and physicist
- July 4 - August Derleth, anthologist
- July 7 - Claude Gauvreau, poet and dramatist
- August 30 - Peter Fleming, travel writer and brother of Ian Fleming
- October 25 - Philip Gordon Wylie, novelist
- November 10 - Walter Van Tilburg Clark, novelist (The Ox-Bow Incident)
- December 22 - Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer
- December 25 - S. Foster Damon, critic and poet
- date unknown
- Clifford Dyment, poet
- St. John Greer Ervine, dramatist
- Jacques Lusseyran, blind author
[edit] Awards
[edit] France
- Prix Goncourt: Jacques Laurent, Les Bêtises
- Prix Médicis: Pascal Lainé, L'Irrévolution
[edit] United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
- Cholmondeley Award: Charles Causley, Gavin Ewart, Hugo Williams
- Eric Gregory Award: Martin Booth, Florence Bull, John Pook, D. M. Warman, John Welch
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: Stephen Spender
[edit] United States
- Frost Medal: Melville Cane
- See 1971 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Hugo Award: Larry Niven, Ringworld
- Nebula Award: Robert Silverberg, A Time of Changes
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Betsy Bears, Summer of the Swans
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders
[edit] Elsewhere
- Akutagawa Prize: Azuma Mineo, Okinawan Boy
- Viareggio Prize: Ugo Attardi, L'erede selvaggio
