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1971 in literature

See also: 1970 in literature, other events of 1971, 1972 in literature, list of years in literature.

1971 in literature - Events

• The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins England's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award.

• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner is published.

1971 in literature - New books

• Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman - Ernest J. Gaines
• Being There - Jerzy Kosinski
• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• The Betsy - Harold Robbins
• Bonecrack - Dick Francis
• The Book of Daniel - E. L. Doctorow
• Books Do Furnish a Room - Anthony Powell
• Crow - Ted Hughes
• The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth
• Death of the Fox - George Garrett
• The Drifters - James A. Michener
• The End of Summer - Rosamunde Pilcher
• The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
• Grendel - John Gardner
• Honor Thy Father - Gay Talese
• In a Free State - V.S. Naipaul
• The Last Spike - Pierre Berton
• The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
• Lives of Girls and Women - Alice Munro
• The Naive and Sentimental Lover - John le Carré
• Natalie Natalia - Nicholas Mosley
• The Other - Thomas Tyron
• The Passions of the Mind - Irving Stone
• Rabbit Redux - John Updike
• St. Urbain's Horseman - Mordecai Richler
• A Scarcity of Love - Anna Kavan
• Sergeant Getulio - Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro
• A Theory of Justice - John Rawls
• Touching - Gwen Davis
• The Winds of War - Herman Wouk
• The Winter of the Fisher - Cameron Langford
• Wheels - Arthur Hailey

1971 in literature - New drama

• John Mortimer - A Voyage Round My Father

1971 in literature - Poetry

• Maya Angelou - Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die

1971 in literature - Non-fiction

• Xaviera Hollander - The Happy Hooker: My Own Story

1971 in literature - Births

• January 7 - Helen Darville, writer
• March 10 - Ugonna Wachuku, poet, creative writer, author
• July 17 - Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer
• December 19 - Tristan Egolf, novelist (d. 2005)

1971 in literature - 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
• December 25 - S. Foster Damon, critic and poet
• date unknown - Clifford Dyment, poet
• date unknown - St. John Greer Ervine, dramatist
• date unknown - Jacques Lusseyran, blind author

1971 in literature - Awards

• Akutagawa Prize: Azuma Mineo, Okinawan Boy
• Booker Prize: V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
• 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
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda
• Prix Goncourt: Jacques Laurent, Les Bêtises
• Prix Médicis: Pascal Lainé, L'Irrévolution
• 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
• Viareggio Prize: Ugo Attardi, L'erede selvaggio

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