1971 in literature
See also: 1970 in literature, other events of 1971, 1972 in literature, list of years in literature.
EventsThe 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
- 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
- Grendel - John Gardner
- The Happy Hooker: My Own Story – Xaviera Hollander
- 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
- 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
- A Theory of Justice - John Rawls
- The Winds of War - Herman Wouk
- The Winter of the Fisher - Cameron Langford
- Wheels - Arthur Hailey
Births - January 7 - Helen Darville, writer
- March 10 - Ugonna Wachuku, poet, creative writer, author
Deaths - April 10 - André Billy, French 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 Bętises
- 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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