See also: 1970 in literature, other events of 1971, 1972 in literature, list of years in literature. See also: 1969 in literature, other events of 1970, 1971 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... See also: 1971 in literature, other events of 1972, 1973 in literature, list of years in literature. ... This page indexes the individual year in literature pages. ...

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.

Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the United Kingdom (light green), with the Republic of Ireland (blue) to its west Languages English Capital London Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid... The Whitbread Book Awards are among the United Kingdoms most prestigious literary awards. ... Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair bound historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier era grandparents. ... Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909—April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. ...

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
• Crow - Ted Hughes
• 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

Angle of Repose is a 1971 novel by Wallace Stegner about a wheelchair bound historian, Lyman Ward, who has lost connection with his son and living family and decides to write about his frontier era grandparents. ... Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909—April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. ... The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman is a fictional 1971 novel by Ernest J. Gaines, written in the style of an interview with a (fictional) 110-year-old black woman named Jane Pittman. ... Ernest Gaines was born in 1933 on the River Lake Plantation in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, the setting for most of his fiction, which he calls Bayonne; he was the fifth generation in his family to be born there. ... Being There is a political, satirical 1971 novel by Jerzy KosiÅ„ski and a 1979 film directed by Hal Ashby. ... Jerzy Kosiński. ... The Bell Jar book cover The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plaths only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963. ... A self-portrait circa 1951. ... The Betsy is a 1978 film starring Laurence Olivier and Tommy Lee Jones. ... Harold Robbins (originally Harold Rubin) (May 21, 1916–October 14, 1997) was an American author. ... The cover of the Pan 1988 paperback edition of Bolt Dick Francis (born October 31, 1920) is a British jockey and author. ... Look up The Book of Daniel in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... E.L. Doctorow, photograph by Jill Krementz, from back cover of Doctorows 1975 novel Ragtime Edgar Lawrence Doctorow (born January 6, 1931, New York, New York) is the author of several critically acclaimed novels that blend history and social criticism. ... Anthony Dymoke Powell (December 21, 1905 - March 28, 2000) was a writer best known for his A Dance to the Music of Time duodecalogy published between 1951 and 1975. ... Species See text. ... Edward James Hughes, OM, referred to normally as Ted Hughes, (August 17, 1930 – October 28, 1998) was an English poet and childrens writer. ... The Day of the Jackal is a thriller novel by Frederick Forsyth, first published in 1971, about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French terrorist group of the early 1960s, to kill Charles de Gaulle. ... Frederick Forsyth Frederick Forsyth (born August 25, 1938) is a British author and occasional political commentator. ... George William Garrett (1852-1902) was born at Moss Side in Manchester, England, the son of a Church of England clergyman. ... The Drifters is the name of a novel by author James A. Michener. ... James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907? - October 16, 1997) was the American author of such books as Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas, and Poland. ... Rosamunde Pilcher OBE (maiden name Scott, born 22 September 1924 in Lelant, Cornwall, United Kingdom) is a British novelist. ... The Exorcist is a horror novel written by William Peter Blatty first published in 1971. ... William Peter Blatty, (born January 7, 1928), is an American writer, probably most famous for the novel The Exorcist (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version. ... The hard cover version of the book. ... Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. ... Grendel is a retelling of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf, from the perspective of the first antagonist, Grendel, written by American author John Champlin Gardner. ... John Champlin Gardner, Jr. ... Gay Talese (born February 7, 1932) is an American author. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Sir V.S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (born August 17, 1932), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a British novelist of Hindu heritage and East Indian ethnicity from Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, which was then a British colony. ... The Last Spike refers to the final spike used in the construction of a major railway project. ... Pierre Francis Berton, CC , O.Ont , BA , D.Litt (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a noted Canadian author of non-fiction, especially Canadiana and Canadian history, and was a well-known television personality and journalist. ... Book cover from Harper Academic The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin. ... Ursula K. Le Guin at an informal bookstore Q&A session, July 2004 Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born October 21, 1929), is an American author. ... Lives of Girls and Women is a 1971 book of short stories by Alice Munro. ... Alice Munro (born Alice Ann Laidlaw on July 10, 1931) is a Canadian short story writer, widely considered one of the greatest short story writers in modern literature. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Natalie Natalia is a novel by Nicholas Mosley first published in 1971 about a middle-aged British MP who, while seemingly on the brink of insanity, conducts an adulterous affair with the wife of a colleague. ... The Right Honourable Nicholas Mosley, 3rd Baron Ravensdale (born June 25, 1923) is a British novelist. ... The Other is a 1972 chiller directed by Robert Mulligan and written by Tom Tryon, who was also the author of the novel. ... Irving Stone (July 14, 1903 - August 26, 1989) is an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities. ... Rabbit Redux is the 1971 publication of John Updike. ... John Updike John Hoyer Updike (born March 18, 1932) is an American writer born in Reading, Pennsylvania. ... Mordecai Richler Mordecai Richler, CC (January 27, 1931 - July 3, 2001) was a Canadian author, scriptwriter and essayist. ... Anna Kavan (born April 10, 1904 as Helen Emily Woods, died 1968) was an author. ... William F. Nolan is one of The Group of United States science fiction authors responsible for most of the scripts for the television show The Twilight Zone. ... A Theory of Justice is a book of political and moral philosophy by John Rawls. ... John Rawls (February 21, 1921 – November 24, 2002) was an American philosopher, a professor of political philosophy at Harvard University and author of A Theory of Justice (1971), Political Liberalism, Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, and The Law of Peoples. ... This article concerns physical and human touch. ... Gwen Davis (born May 11, 1936) is an American novelist and poet. ... The Winds of War is Herman Wouks second book about World War II, the first being The Caine Mutiny (1951). ... Herman Wouk (May 27, 1915 —) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, and War and Remembrance. ... Wheels (1971) is a novel by Arthur Hailey, concerning the automobile industry and the day-to-day pressures involved in its operation. ... Arthur Hailey (April 5, 1920 - November 24, 2004) was a British/Canadian/American/Bahamian novelist. ...

New drama

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

Peter Handke (born December 6, 1942) is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright. ... Sir John Clifford Mortimer QC (born 21 April 1923) is an English barrister turned prolific writer and dramatist. ...

Poetry

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

Maya Angelou Maya Angelou (born April 4, 1928) is a famous American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. ...

Non-fiction

• Xaviera Hollander - The Happy Hooker: My Own Story

Xaviera Hollander [Vera de Vries] (born June 15, 1943 in Surabaya, Indonesia, of a Jewish father and Roman Catholic mother) is a former call girl/madam, best known as the author of The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (1971, ISBN 0060014164). ...

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)

January 7 is the seventh day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Helen Darville (born 7 January 1971) is an Australian journalist and writer. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in leap years). ... Ugonna Wachuku is an author. ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 167 days remaining. ... Cory Doctorow at the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and a proponent of Creative Commons. ... December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Tristan Egolf (December 19, 1971 - May 7, 2005 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA) was an American novelist, author, and a political activist. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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

March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 - March 5, 1971) was an educator, historian, and author and journalist. ... March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ... Stevie Smith was a British poet and radio personality (September 20, 1902 - March 7, 1971). ... April 10 is the 100th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (101st in leap years). ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... May 19 is the 139th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (140th in leap years). ... Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet best known for writing pithy and funny light verse. ... May 20 is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... Waldo (Goronwy) Williams (30 September 1904 – 20 May 1971) was one of the leading Welsh-language poets of the twentieth century. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was a Protestant theologian best known for his study of the task of relating the Christian faith to the reality of modern politics and diplomacy. ... June 4 is the 155th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (156th in leap years), with 210 days remaining. ... Georg Lukács (April 13, 1885 – June 4, 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic in the tradition of Western Marxism. ... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... Edward Neville Da Costa Andrade (December 27, 1887 - June 6, 1971), was an English physicist, writer and poet. ... July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... Claude Gauvreau (August 19, 1925 - July 7, 1971), was a Quebec playwright, poet and polemist born in Montreal. ... August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ... This article is about Peter Fleming the writer. ... Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was an English author and journalist, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the childrens story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ... October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining. ... Philip Gordon Wylie (May 12, 1902 - October 25, 1971) was a U.S. author. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... S. Foster Damon (February 12, 1893 – December 25, 1971) was an American academic, a specialist in William Blake, a critic and a poet. ... Clifford Henry Dyment (1914 – 1971) was a British poet, also a literary critic and editor, and journalist, best known for his poems on countryside topics. ... St. ... Jacques Lusseyran (1925-1971) was a French 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