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The year 1971 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
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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)
- 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
- Jerzy Kosinski - Being There
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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)
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
- Clifford Dyment, poet
- St. John Greer Ervine, dramatist
- Jacques Lusseyran, blind author
Awards
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
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Nadine Gordimer, A Guest of Honour
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Julia Namier, Lewis Namier
- 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 Byars, 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
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