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The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Events[]

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

New books[]

  • Hiroshi Aramata - Teito Monogatari
  • Denys Val Baker - The Face in the Mirror
  • William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist
  • Richard Brautigan - Revenge of the Lawn
  • Albert Camus - A Happy Death (La Mort heureuse)
  • John Dickson Carr - Deadly Hall
  • Agatha Christie
    • Nemesis
    • The Golden Ball and Other Stories
  • Brian Cleeve - Cry of Morning
  • Gwen Davis - Touching
  • L. Sprague de Camp - The Clocks of Iraz
  • L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - Conan the Buccaneer
  • Walter de la Mare - Eight Tales
  • August Derleth, editor - Dark Things
  • 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
  • William Golding - The Scorpion God
  • Arthur Hailey - Wheels
  • Anna Kavan - A Scarcity of Love
  • Thomas Keneally - The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
  • Jerzy Kosinski - Being There
  • John le Carré - The Naive and Sentimental Lover
  • Ursula K. Le Guin - The Lathe of Heaven
  • Stanisław Lem - Dzienniki gwiazdowe (The Star Diaries)
  • Brian Lumley - The Caller of the Black
  • John D. MacDonald - A Tan and Sandy Silence
  • Antonine Maillet - La Sagouine
  • 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. Nolan - Space for Hire
  • Rosamunde Pilcher - The End of Summer
  • Anthony Powell - Books Do Furnish a Room
  • Terry Pratchett - The Carpet People
  • John Rawls - A Theory of Justice
  • Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro - Sergeant Getulio
  • Mordecai Richler - St. Urbain's Horseman
  • Harold Robbins - The Betsy
  • Leonardo Sciascia - Il contesto
  • Hubert Selby Jr. - The Room
  • Tom Sharpe - Riotous Assembly
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn - August 1914
  • Wallace Stegner - Angle of Repose
  • Irving Stone - The Passions of the Mind
  • Gay Talese - Honor Thy Father
  • Tom Tryon - The Other
  • John Updike - Rabbit Redux
  • Herman Wouk - The Winds of War
  • Roger Zelazny
    • The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories
    • Jack of Shadows

New drama[]

  • Peter Handke - Der Ritt über den Bodensee ("The Ride Across Lake Constance")
  • John Mortimer - A Voyage Round My Father

Poetry[]

Main article: 1971 in poetry
  • Maya Angelou - Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
  • Donald S. Fryer - Songs and Sonnets Atlantean
  • Ted Hughes - Crow
  • Alan Llwyd - Y March Hud ("The Magic Horse")
  • Clark Ashton Smith - Selected Poems

Non-fiction[]

  • Pierre Berton – The Last Spike
  • Robert Coles
    • Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers, vol 2 of Children of Crisis – Pulitzer Prize, 1973
    • The South Goes North, vol 3 of Children of Crisis – Pulitzer Prize, 1973
  • Brian J. Ford – Nonscience
  • Robert Foster – The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
  • Joan Garrity – The Sensuous Woman
  • Graham Greene - A Sort of Life
  • Xaviera Hollander – The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
  • H.P. Lovecraft – Selected Letters III (1929–1931)
  • Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel – Hess: A Biography
  • Alison Plowden - Young Elizabeth
  • B.F. Skinner – Beyond Freedom and Dignity
  • Pierre Vallières – White Niggers of America (translation)
  • Carlos Castaneda - A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan

Births[]

  • January 16 - Helen Darville, writer
  • February 3 - Sarah Kane, playwright (d. 1999)
  • March 10 - Ugonna Wachuku, poet, creative writer, author
  • March 29 - José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, Panamanian writer, photographer
  • May 28 - Richard Gunn, journalist and motoring writer
  • July 17 - Cory Doctorow, science fiction writer
  • July 22 - Akhil Sharma, novelist
  • December 19 - Tristan Egolf, novelist (d. 2005)

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

Awards[]

Canada[]

  • See 1971 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France[]

  • Prix Goncourt: Jacques Laurent, Les Bêtises
  • Prix Médicis: Pascal Lainé, L'Irrévolution

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

  • Akutagawa Prize: Azuma Mineo, Okinawan Boy
  • Premio Nadal: José María Requena, El cuajarón
  • Viareggio Prize: Ugo Attardi, L'erede selvaggio

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