1971 in literature

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. In 2001, the book would be named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library.

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[?]
• Honor Thy Father[?] - Gay Talese[?]
• In a Free State[?] - V.S. Naipaul
• The Last Spike[?] - Pierre Berton
• 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

Deaths

• April 10 - André Billy[?], French author

Awards

• Booker Prize: V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
• Newberry Medal for children's literature: Betsy Bears[?], Summer of the Swans
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda
• 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