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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1971.

Events

March 25–December 14 – The 1971 killing of Bengali intellectuals reaches a peak.
April 21 – The 13th-century Codex Regius manuscript is returned by 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, as the origin of Project Gutenberg.[1]
July 14 – Simon Gray's play Butley has its first performance 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 U.K.'s first Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. Geoffrey Hill wins the poetry prize for Mercian Hymns and Michael Meyer 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.
November 29 – Yuri Lyubimov's production of Hamlet is seen first at the Taganka Theatre in Moscow, with singer-songwriter and poet Vladimir Vysotsky in the lead.[3]
December 24 – The Dutch writer and broadcaster Godfried Bomans is buried in the Sint-Adelbertskerkhof (St. Adelbert Cemetery) in Bloemendaal, the Netherlands, two days after he dies from a heart attack.
unknown date – Powell's Books opens its first bookstore in Portland, Oregon.[4]

New books

Fiction

Kingsley Amis – Girl, 20
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
Nanni Balestrini – Vogliamo tutto (We Want Everything)
John Bingham – Vulture in the Sun
William Peter Blatty – The Exorcist
Richard Brautigan – Revenge of the Lawn
Charles Bukowski – Post Office
Albert Camus (died 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
Hubert Fichte – Detlevs Imitationen »Grünspan« (Detlev's imitations, "verdigris")
E. M. Forster (died 1970) – Maurice (originally completed 1914)
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
L.P. Hartley – The Harness Room
Bohumil Hrabal – I Served the King of England (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále)
David Ireland – The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
Ismail Kadare – Chronicle in Stone (Kronikë në gur)
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
- The Star Diaries (Dzienniki gwiazdowe)
- The Futurological Congress (Kongres futurologiczny)
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
Iris Murdoch – An Accidental Man
V. S. Naipaul – In a Free State
William F. Nolan – Space for Hire
Walker Percy – Love in the Ruins
Rosamunde Pilcher – The End of Summer
Anthony Powell – Books Do Furnish a Room
Terry Pratchett – The Carpet People
Otfried Preußler – Krabat
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 part of The Raj Quartet)
Hubert Selby Jr. – The Room
Cynthia Propper Seton – The Sea Change of Angela Lewes
Tom Sharpe – Riotous Assembly
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
Fred Uhlman – Reunion
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 people

Jack Bickham – The Apple Dumpling Gang
Virginia Hamilton – The Planet of Junior Brown
Roger Hargreaves – Mr. Men (first six of a series of 49 books)
Judith Kerr – When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (first of the Out of the Hitler Time trilogy)
Bill Peet
- The Caboose Who Got Loose
- How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head
Otfried Preußler – Krabat (The Satanic Mill)
Dr. Seuss – The Lorax
Marjorie W. Sharmat – Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein

Drama

Simon Gray – Butley
Peter Handke – Der Ritt über den Bodensee (The Ride across Lake Constance)
Franz Xaver Kroetz
- Hartnäckig (Persistent)
- Heimarbeit (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)
Martin Walser – Ein Kinderspiel

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

G. E. M. Anscombe – Causality and Determination
Pierre Berton – The Last Spike
Carlos Castaneda – A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
Dharampal – Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts
Robert Coles
- Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers, vol. 2 of Children of Crisis
- The South Goes North, vol 3. of Children of Crisis
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 Rawls – A Theory of Justice
B. F. Skinner – Beyond Freedom and Dignity
Keith Thomas – Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in 16th and 17th-century England
Pierre Vallières – White Niggers of America (translation)
Esther Vilar – The Manipulated Man

Births

January 6 – Karin Slaughter, American crime novelist
January 16 – Helen Darville, Australian novelist
January 18 – Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (died 2019)
January 25 – Philip Coppens, Belgian journalist and author (died 2012)
February 3 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (died 1999)
March 13 – Viet Thanh Nguyen, Vietnamese fiction writer
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
June 28 – Sophie Hannah, English poet and novelist
July 17 – Cory Doctorow, Canadian science fiction writer
July 22 – Akhil Sharma, Indian novelist
July 23 – Mohsin Hamid, Pakistani fiction writer
September 3 – Kiran Desai, Indian novelist
October 25 – Elif Shafak (Elif Şafak), French-born Turkish novelist
November 5 – Rana Dasgupta, English-born Indian novelist
December 19 – Tristan Egolf, American novelist and activist (died 2005)
unknown dates
- Petina Gappah, Zambian-born fiction writer
- John Wray, American 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)[5]
June 6 – Edward Andrade, English writer, poet and physicist (born 1887)
July 4
- Maurice Bowra, English poet, humorist and Oxford don (born 1898)
- 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 21 – Naoya Shiga, Japanese novelist (pneumonia, born 1883)
October 25 – Philip Wylie, American novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1902)
November – Lucia Mantu, Romanian writer (born 1888)
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

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.
Novikov, V. I. (2010). Vysotsky. The Lives of Distinguished People (in Russian) (6th ed.). Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya. p. 151. ISBN 978-5-235-03353-5.
Thomas Derdak (1988). International Directory of Company Histories. St. James Press. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-912289-10-6.
Peter Dale, "Dyment, Clifford" in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, Ian Hamilton (ed.), Oxford Univ. Press, 1994, p. 142. ISBN 0-19-866147-9

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[1] Hart, Michael (August 1992). "The History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg". Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 2011-10-05..

[2] "Whitbreads in Literary World". The Glasgow Herald. 1971-10-21. p. 16. Retrieved 2014-06-05.

[3] Novikov, V. I. (2010). Vysotsky. The Lives of Distinguished People (in Russian) (6th ed.). Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya. p. 151. ISBN 978-5-235-03353-5.

[4] Thomas Derdak (1988). International Directory of Company Histories. St. James Press. p. 360. ISBN 978-0-912289-10-6.

[5] Peter Dale, "Dyment, Clifford" in The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, Ian Hamilton (ed.), Oxford Univ. Press, 1994, p. 142. ISBN 0-19-866147-9