1971 IN LITERATURE

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

Contents

Events

New books

New drama

Poetry

Non-fiction

Births

Deaths

Awards

France

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

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

New books

★ Terry Pratchett - ''The Carpet People''

★ 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'')

★ Gwen Davis - ''Touching''

★ L. Sprague de Camp - ''The Clocks of Iraz''

★ Walter de la Mare - ''Eight Tales''

★ L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - ''Conan the Buccaneer''

★ 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 (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''

★ Brian Lumley - ''The Caller of the Black''

★ 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''

★ 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''

★ 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

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★ ''The Doors of His Face, The Lamp of His Mouth, and Other Stories''

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★ ''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

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

★ 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

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★ ''Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers'', vol 2 of ''Children of Crisis'' – Pulitzer Prize, 1973

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★ ''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''

★ Xaviera Hollander – ''

★ H.P. Lovecraft – ''Selected Letters III (1929-1931)''

★ Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel – ''

★ Alison Plowden - ''Young Elizabeth''

★ B. F. Skinner – ''Beyond Freedom and Dignity''

★ Pierre Vallières – ''White Niggers of America'' (translation)

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)

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''

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★ Clifford Dyment, poet

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★ St. John Greer Ervine, dramatist

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★ Jacques Lusseyran, blind author

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda

France

★ Prix Goncourt: Jacques Laurent, ''Les Bêtises''

★ Prix Médicis: Pascal Lainé, ''L'Irrévolution''

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

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''

Elsewhere

★ Akutagawa Prize: Azuma Mineo, ''Okinawan Boy''

★ Premio Nadal: José María Requena (''El cuajarón''

★ Viareggio Prize: Ugo Attardi, ''L'erede selvaggio''