1971 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1971.

Events

March 25–December 14 – 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals peaks.
April 21 – The 13th century Codex Regius is returned from Denmark to Iceland under naval escort.
July 4 – Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer, the origin of Project Gutenberg.^[1]
July 14 – Simon Gray's play Butley is first performed at the Criterion Theatre in London, produced by Michael Codron and directed by Harold Pinter with Alan Bates in the lead.
October 20 – The Destiny Waltz by Gerda Charles wins the UK's first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. Geoffrey Hill wins the poetry prize for Mercian Hymns and Michael Meyer in the biography category for Henrik Ibsen.^[2]
November – Hunter S. Thompson's roman à clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is first published in Rolling Stone as a two-part article illustrated by Ralph Steadman.
December 24 – Popular Dutch writer and broadcaster Godfried Bomans is buried in the Sint-Adelbertskerkhof (Saint Adelbert Cemetery) in Bloemendaal, two days after his death from a heart attack.

New books

Fiction

Hiroshi Aramata (荒俣宏) – Teito Monogatari (Tale of the Capitol)
Kofi Awoonor – This Earth, My Brother
Denys Val Baker – The Face in the Mirror
William Peter Blatty – The Exorcist
Richard Brautigan – Revenge of the Lawn
Charles Bukowski – Post Office
Albert Camus (d. 1960) – 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
Miloš Crnjanski – Roman o Londonu ("A Novel about London")
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
E. M. Forster (posthumous) – Maurice
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
Bohumil Hrabal – I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále)
David Ireland – The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
Anna Kavan – A Scarcity of Love
Thomas Keneally – The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith
Jerzy Kosinski – Being There
Jacques Laurent – Les Bêtises
John le Carré – The Naive and Sentimental Lover
Ursula K. Le Guin – The Lathe of Heaven
Stanisław Lem
- Dzienniki gwiazdowe (The Star Diaries)
- Kongres futurologiczny (The Futurological Congress)
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
Otfried Preußler – Krabat
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
Paul Scott – The Towers of Silence (third of The Raj Quartet)
Hubert Selby Jr. – The Room
Tom Sharpe – Riotous Assembly
John S. Simon – The Sign of The Fool
Alexander Solzhenitsyn – August 1914
Wallace Stegner – Angle of Repose
Irving Stone – The Passions of the Mind
Francis Stuart – Black List, Section H
Gay Talese – Honor Thy Father
Tom Tryon – The Other
John Updike – Rabbit Redux
Joseph Wambaugh – The New Centurions
Herman Wouk – The Winds of War
Roger Zelazny
- The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth, and Other Stories
- Jack of Shadows

Children and young adults

Roger Hargreaves – Mr. Men (first 6 of series of 49)
Marjorie W. Sharmat – Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein
Otfried Preußler – Krabat (The Satanic Mill)

Drama

Simon Gray – Butley
Peter Handke – Der Ritt über den Bodensee ("The Ride Across Lake Constance")
Franz Xaver Kroetz
- Hartnäckig ("Persistent")
- Heimarbeit ("Homeworker" or "Housework")
- Michis Blut: ein Requiem auf bairisch ("Michi's blood: a Requiem in Bavarian")
- Stallerhof
- Wildwechsel
Mustapha Matura – As Time Goes By
John Mortimer – A Voyage Round My Father (stage version)

Poetry

Main article: 1971 in poetry

Maya Angelou – Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Kofi Awoonor – Night of My Blood
Donald S. Fryer – Songs and Sonnets Atlantean
Alan Llwyd – Y March Hud ("The Magic Horse")
Clark Ashton Smith – Selected Poems

Non-fiction

Pierre Berton – The Last Spike
Carlos Castaneda – A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
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
Carl N. Degler - Neither Black nor White
Brian J. Ford – Nonscience
Robert Foster – The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
Eduardo Galeano – Open Veins of Latin America (Las venas abiertas de América Latina)
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
Spike Milligan – Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall.
Alison Plowden – Young Elizabeth
John S. Simon – The Sign of The Fool
B. F. Skinner – Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Keith Thomas – Religion and the Decline of Magic: studies in popular beliefs in sixteenth and seventeenth century England
Pierre Vallières – White Niggers of America (translation)
Tom Wolfe – The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Births

January 16 – Helen Darville, Australian novelist
January 25 – Philip Coppens, Belgian journalist and author (died 2012)
February 3 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (died 1999)
March 29 – José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, Panamanian writer and photographer
May 28 – Richard Gunn, English journalist and motoring writer
May 9 – Dan Chiasson, American poet, critic, and journalist
July 17 – Cory Doctorow, Canadian science fiction writer
July 22 – Akhil Sharma, Indian novelist
September 3 – Kiran Desai, Indian novelist
November 5 – Rana Dasgupta, English-born Indian novelist
December 19 – Tristan Egolf, American novelist and activist (died 2005)
Unknown dates
- Diana Evans, English novelist of Nigerian extraction
- Sophie Hannah, English poet and novelist

Deaths

January 24 – St. John Greer Ervine, Irish-born dramatist (born 1883)
March 5 – Allan Nevins, American journalist and historian (born 1890)
March 7 – Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith), English poet and novelist (born 1902)
March 21 – Kyūya Fukada (深田久弥), Japanese writer and mountaineer (born 1903)
March 23 – Simon Vestdijk, Dutch writer (born 1898)
April 10 – André Billy, French novelist (born 1882)
May 19 – Ogden Nash, American poet and humorist (born 1902)
May 20 – Waldo Williams, Welsh-language poet (born 1904)
June 1 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (born 1892)
June 4 – György Lukács (György Bernát Löwinger), Hungarian philosopher and critic (born 1885)
June 5 – Clifford Dyment, English poet (born 1914)
June 6 – Edward Andrade, English writer, poet and physicist (born 1887)
July 4 – August Derleth, American writer and anthologist (heart attack, born 1909)
July 7 – Claude Gauvreau, Québécois Canadian poet and dramatist (born 1925)
July 27 – Jacques Lusseyran, French author and Resistance fighter (car crash, born 1924)
August 30 – Peter Fleming, English travel writer and traveler (born 1907)
October 13 – János Kemény, American-born Hungarian writer and editor (born 1903)
October 25 – Philip Wylie, American novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1902)
November 1 – Gertrud von Le Fort, German novelist, poet and essayist (born 1876)
November 10 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist (cancer, born 1909)
November 11 – A. P. Herbert, English humorist, novelist and politician (born 1890)
December 5 – Gaito Gazdanov, Russian-born novelist (born 1903)
December 22 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer and broadcaster (heart attack, born 1913)
December 25 – S. Foster Damon, American critic and poet (born 1893)

Awards

Nobel Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda

Canada

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

References

↑ Hart, Michael (August 1992). "The History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 2011-10-05. .
↑ "Whitbreads in Literary World". The Glasgow Herald. 1971-10-21. p. 16. Retrieved 2014-06-05.

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