This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1971 .
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.
June 30 – Release of musical film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in the United States, based on Roald Dahl 's 1964 children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory . Although Dahl is credited for the screenplay, creative differences with the production team cause him to disown the picture.[1]
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 .[2]
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 .[3]
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.[4]
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 .[5]
New books
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Children and young people
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Non-fiction
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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 (suicide 1999 )
March 13 – Viet Thanh Nguyen , Vietnamese fiction writer
March 29 – José Luis Rodríguez Pittí , Panamanian writer and photographer
May 9 – Dan Chiasson , American poet, critic and journalist
May 25 - Nicole Luiken , Canadian science fiction writer
June 4 – Karl Martin Sinijärv , Estonian journalist and poet
June 28 – Sophie Hannah , English poet and novelist
July 17 – Cory Doctorow , Canadian science fiction writer[10]
July 22 – Akhil Sharma , Indian novelist
July 23 – Mohsin Hamid , Pakistani fiction writer
September 3 – Kiran Desai , Indian novelist
October 17 - Patrick Ness , British-American speculative fiction author
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 )
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January 18 – N. Porsenna , Romanian novelist, essayist, poet and social psychologist (Parkinson's disease, born 1892 )
January 24 – St. John Greer Ervine , Irish-born dramatist (born 1883 )[11]
March 5 – Allan Nevins , American journalist and historian (born 1890 )[12]
March 7 – Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith), English poet and novelist (born 1902 )[13]
March 21 – Kyūya Fukada (深田 久弥), Japanese writer and mountaineer (born 1903 )
March 23 – Simon Vestdijk , Dutch writer (born 1898 )[14]
April 10 – André Billy , French novelist (born 1882 )[15]
April 13 – Juhan Smuul , Estonian writer (born 1922 )
April 15 – Friedebert Tuglas , Estonian writer and critic (born 1886 )[16]
May 19 – Ogden Nash , American poet and humorist (born 1902 )[17]
May 20 – Waldo Williams , Welsh-language poet (born 1904 )[18]
June 1 – Reinhold Niebuhr , American theologian (born 1892 )[19]
June 4 – György Lukács (György Bernát Löwinger), Hungarian philosopher and critic (born 1885 )[20]
June 5 – Clifford Dyment , English poet (born 1914 )[21]
June 6 – Edward Andrade , English writer, poet and physicist (born 1887 )[22]
July 4
July 7 – Claude Gauvreau , Québécois Canadian poet and dramatist (born 1925 )[25]
July 27 – Jacques Lusseyran , French author and Resistance fighter (car crash, born 1924 )[26]
August 30 – Peter Fleming , English travel writer and traveller (born 1907 )[27]
October 13 – János Kemény , American-born Hungarian writer and editor (born 1903 )
October 21 – Naoya Shiga , Japanese novelist (pneumonia, born 1883 )[28]
October 25 – Philip Wylie , American novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1902 )[29]
November – Lucia Mantu , Romanian writer (born 1888 )[30]
November 1 – Gertrud von Le Fort , German novelist, poet and essayist (born 1876 )[31]
November 10 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark , American novelist (cancer, born 1909 )[32]
November 11 – A. P. Herbert , English humorist, novelist and politician (born 1890 )[33]
November 28 – Dimitrie Stelaru (Dumitru Petrescu), Romanian poet and novelist (cirrhosis, born 1917 )
November 29 – Edith Tolkien (née Bratt), English wife of J. R. R. Tolkien (born 1889 )[34]
December 5 – Gaito Gazdanov , Russian-born novelist (born 1903 )[35]
December 22 – Godfried Bomans , Dutch writer and broadcaster (heart attack, born 1913 )
December 25 – S. Foster Damon , American critic and poet (born 1893 )[36]
United Kingdom
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Booker Prize : V. S. Naipaul , In a Free State
Carnegie Medal for children's literature : Ivan Southall , Josh [37]
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
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Elsewhere
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Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542 .
References
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^ 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 .
^ Hahn 2015, p.43
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^ Gale, Cengage (13 December 2018). "A Study Guide for Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother"" . Gale, Cengage Learning. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-02-866534-4 .
^ Frank Northen Magill (1985). Critical Survey of Drama: Authors A-Z . Salem Press. p. 559. ISBN 978-0-89356-377-6 .
^ Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents . Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 1971. p. 758.
^ Sanford Sternlicht (1990). Stevie Smith . Twayne Publishers. pp. 11–16. ISBN 978-0-8057-6990-6 .
^ Sara Pendergast; Tom Pendergast (2003). Reference Guide to World Literature: Authors . St. James Press. p. 1059. ISBN 978-1-55862-491-7 .
^ "Andre Billy, 88, critic in France" . New York Times . April 12, 1971. Retrieved March 25, 2021 .
^ Books Abroad . University of Oklahoma. 1973. p. 636.
^ Ron Padgett (2000). World Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins-William Shakespeare . Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-684-80609-9 .
^ Poetry Wales . C. Davies. 1971. p. 3.
^ Richard Wightman Fox (1987). Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography . Harper & Row. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-06-250343-5 .
^ Judith Marcus; Zoltan Tarr (1 January 1989). Georg Lukacs: Theory, Culture, and Politics . Transaction Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4128-2451-4 .
^ 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
^ Alan Symons (1997). The Jewish Contribution to the 20th Century . Polo Pub. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-9523751-1-1 .
^ Stephen Spender; Irving Kristol (July 1972). Encounter . Encounter Limited. p. 11.
^ Michael Ashley (2000). The History of the Science-fiction Magazine . Liverpool University Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-85323-779-2 .
^ Claude Gauvreau (1996). The Charge of the Expormidable Moose . Exile Editions, Ltd. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-55096-181-2 .
^ "Jacques Lusseyran" . Buchenwald.de . Retrieved March 25, 2021 .
^ Frank C. Roberts (1979). Obituaries from the Times: Including an Index to All Obituaries and Tributes Appearing in the Times During the Years 1951-1975 . Newspaper Archive Developments. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-903713-97-9 .
^ Grolier Incorporated (March 1998). The Encyclopedia Americana . Grolier Incorporated. p. 712.
^ Clifford P. Bendau (1 January 1980). Still Worlds Collide: Philip Wylie and the End of the American Dream . Wildside Press LLC. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-89370-244-1 .
^ Aurel Sasu (ed.), Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române , vol. II, p. 592. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. ISBN 973-697-758-7
^ Katharina M. Wilson; M. Wilson (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers . Taylor & Francis. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-8240-8547-6 .
^ Lawrence L. Lee (1973). Walter Van Tilburg Clark . Boise State College. pp. 13–16. ISBN 978-0-88430-007-6 .
^ Stanley Weintraub (1982). Modern British Dramatists, 1900-1945 . Gale Research Company. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-8103-0937-1 .
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