1971 in literature
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See also: 1970 in literature, other events of 1971, 1972 in literature, list of years 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.
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
- 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
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
- Grendel (novel) - 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
- Space for Hire - William F. Nolan
- 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
New drama
- Peter Handke - Der Ritt über den Bodensee ("The Ride Across Lake Constance")
- John Mortimer - A Voyage Round My Father
Poetry
- Maya Angelou - Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die
- Crow - Ted Hughes
Non-fiction
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)
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
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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