Editing 1971 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''1971'''.
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==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.
*June – The federal [[Australian Government]] removes 1969 novel ''[[Portnoy's Complaint]]'' from the list of books prohibited from import into Australia in the face of its widespread legal availablity in the country. It is the last literary publication to have been challenged with censorship before the Australian courts.<ref>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Nicole|title=The Censor's Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia's Banned Books|year=2012|publisher=University of Queensland Press|location=St Lucia|isbn=978-0-7022-3916-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GYMBq6cHuosC&q=%22portnoy%27s+complaint%22+queensland+prosecution&pg=PT218|access-date=2024-09-25}}</ref>
*[[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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/why-roald-dahl-hated-willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-120115179.html|title=Why Roald Dahl Hated the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Film|work=Yahoo! Movies|last=Falky|first=Ben|date=2016-09-12|access-date=2019-09-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180913142956/https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/why-roald-dahl-hated-willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-120115179.html|archive-date=2018-09-13|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[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]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hart |first=Michael |date=August 1992 |title=The History and Philosophy of Project Gutenberg |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/about/background/history_and_philosophy.html |access-date=2011-10-05 |publisher=Project Gutenberg}}.</ref>
*[[July 14]] – [[Simon Gray]]'s play ''[[Butley (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 (translator)|Michael Meyer]] the biography category for ''Henrik Ibsen''.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Whitbreads in Literary World |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19711021&id=vdk9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=9kcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3714,2012173 |newspaper=[[The Glasgow Herald]] |date=1971-10-21 |page=16 |access-date=2014-06-05}}</ref>
*November – [[Hunter S. Thompson]]'s ''[[roman à clef]]'' ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas|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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Novikov |first=V. I. |title=Vysotsky |edition=6th |series=The Lives of Distinguished People |publisher=Molodaya Gvardiya |location=Moscow |year=2010 |isbn=978-5-235-03353-5 |page=151 |language=ru}}</ref>
*[[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]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Thomas|last=Derdak|title=International Directory of Company Histories|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rU8kAQAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-0-912289-10-6|page=360}}</ref>

==New books==
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===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, 7th Baron Clanmorris|John Bingham]] – ''[[Vulture in the Sun]]''
*[[William Peter Blatty]] – ''[[The Exorcist (novel)|The Exorcist]]''
*[[Richard Brautigan]] – ''[[Revenge of the Lawn]]''
*[[Charles Bukowski]] – ''[[Post Office (novel)|Post Office]]''
*[[Albert Camus]] (died 1960) – ''[[A Happy Death]] (La Mort heureuse)''
*[[Victor Canning]] – ''[[Firecrest (novel)|Firecrest]]''
*[[John Dickson Carr]] – ''Deadly Hall''
*[[Agatha Christie]]
**''[[Nemesis (Agatha Christie novel)|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 (novel)|Maurice]]'' (originally completed 1914)
*[[Frederick Forsyth]] – ''[[The Day of the Jackal]]''
*[[Dick Francis]] – ''Bonecrack''
* [[Sarah Gainham]] – ''[[Private Worlds (Gainham novel)|Private Worlds]]''
*[[Ernest J. Gaines]] – ''[[The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman]]''
*[[George Garrett (poet)|George Garrett]] – ''[[Death of the Fox]]''
*[[John Gardner (novelist)|John Gardner]] – ''[[Grendel (novel)|Grendel]]''
*[[William Golding]] – ''[[The Scorpion God]]''
*[[Richard Gordon (English author)|Richard Gordon]] – ''[[The Medical Witness]]''
*[[Arthur Hailey]] – ''[[Wheels (novel)|Wheels]]''
*[[L.P. Hartley]] – ''[[The Harness Room]]''
*[[Bohumil Hrabal]] – ''[[I Served the King of England]] (Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále)''
*[[David Ireland (author)|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 (novel)|Being There]]''
*[[Jacques Laurent]] – ''[[Les Bêtises (novel)|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)''
* [[Peter Lovesey]] – ''[[The Detective Wore Silk Drawers]]''
*[[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 (novel)|The Drifters]]''
*[[Gladys Mitchell]] – ''[[Lament for Leto]]''
*[[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''
*[[Flannery O'Connor]] (died 1964) – ''[[The Complete Stories (O'Connor)|The Complete Stories]]'' (collection)
*[[Walker Percy]] – ''[[Love in the Ruins]]''
*[[Rosamunde Pilcher]] – ''[[The End of Summer]]''
*[[Anthony Powell]] – ''[[Books Do Furnish a Room (novel)|Books Do Furnish a Room]]''
*[[Terry Pratchett]] – ''[[The Carpet People]]''
*[[Otfried Preußler]] – ''[[Krabat (novel)|Krabat]]''
*[[Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro]] – ''[[Sergeant Getulio]]''
*[[Mordecai Richler]] – ''[[St. Urbain's Horseman]]''
*[[Harold Robbins]] – ''[[The Betsy]]''
*[[Leonardo Sciascia]] – ''[[Il contesto]]''
*[[Paul Scott (novelist)|Paul Scott]] – ''[[The Towers of Silence]]'' (third part of ''[[The Raj Quartet]]'')
*[[Hubert Selby Jr.]] – ''[[The Room (novel)|The Room]]''
*[[Cynthia Propper Seton]] – ''The Sea Change of Angela Lewes''
*[[Tom Sharpe]] – ''[[Riotous Assembly]]''
*[[Alexander Solzhenitsyn]] – ''[[August 1914 (novel)|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 (Tryon novel)|The Other]]''
*[[Fred Uhlman]] – ''[[Reunion (1971)|Reunion]]''
*[[John Updike]] – ''[[Rabbit Redux]]''
*[[Joseph Wambaugh]] – ''[[The New Centurions (novel)|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===
*[[Gillian Avery]] – ''A Likely Lad''<ref>Hahn 2015, p.43</ref>
*[[Jack Bickham]] – ''[[The Apple Dumpling Gang]]''
*[[Virginia Hamilton]] – ''[[The Planet of Junior Brown (novel)|The Planet of Junior Brown]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 259</ref>
*[[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)<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 622</ref>
*[[Bill Peet]]
**''[[The Caboose Who Got Loose]]''
**''How Droofus the Dragon Lost His Head''
*[[Otfried Preußler]] – ''[[Krabat (novel)|Krabat (The Satanic Mill)]]''
*[[Dr. Seuss]] – ''[[The Lorax]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 528</ref>
*[[Marjorie W. Sharmat]] – ''Getting Something on Maggie Marmelstein''

===Drama===
*[[Dario Fo]] – ''Tutti uniti! Tutti insieme! Ma scusa, quello non è il padrone?'' (United We Stand! All Together Now! Oops, Isn't That the Boss?)
*[[Simon Gray]] – ''[[Butley (play)|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 language|Bavarian]])
**''[[Stallerhof]]''
**''Wildwechsel''
*[[Mustapha Matura]] – ''As Time Goes By''
*[[John Mortimer]] – ''[[A Voyage Round My Father]]'' (stage version)
*[[Martin Walser]] – ''[[:de:Ein Kinderspiel|Ein Kinderspiel]]''

===Poetry===
{{Main|1971 in poetry}}
*[[Maya Angelou]] – ''[[Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie]]''
*[[Kofi Awoonor]] – ''Night of My Blood''
*[[Donald Sidney-Fryer|Donald S. Fryer]] – ''[[Songs and Sonnets Atlantean]]''
*[[Alan Llwyd]] – ''Y March Hud'' (The Magic Horse)
*[[Clark Ashton Smith]] – ''[[Selected Poems (C. A. Smith)|Selected Poems]]''

===Non-fiction===
*[[G. E. M. Anscombe]] – ''Causality and Determination''
*[[Pierre Berton]] – ''[[The Last Spike (book)|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 (psychiatrist)|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 (author)|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]]''
*[[Ionel Gherea]] – ''Despre cîteva absurdități folositoare'' (On Those More Useful Absurdities)
*[[Graham Greene]] – ''A Sort of Life''
*[[Xaviera Hollander]] – ''[[The Happy Hooker|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 (historian)|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 in literature|2019]])
*[[January 25]] – [[Philip Coppens (author)|Philip Coppens]], Belgian journalist and author (died [[2012 in literature|2012]])
*[[February 3]] – [[Sarah Kane]], English playwright (suicide [[1999 in literature|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<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale, Cengage|title="A Study Guide for Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother""|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9XB_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT4|date=13 December 2018|publisher=Gale, Cengage Learning|isbn=978-0-02-866534-4|pages=4}}</ref>
*[[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 in literature|2005]])
*''unknown dates''
**[[Petina Gappah]], Zambian-born fiction writer
**[[John Wray (novelist)|John Wray]], American novelist

==Deaths==
*[[January 18]] – [[N. Porsenna]], Romanian novelist, essayist, poet and social psychologist (Parkinson's disease, born [[1892 in literature|1892]])
*[[January 24]] – [[St. John Greer Ervine]], Irish-born dramatist (born [[1883 in literature|1883]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank Northen Magill|title=Critical Survey of Drama: Authors A-Z|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JK85AAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Salem Press|isbn=978-0-89356-377-6|page=559}}</ref>
*[[March 5]] – [[Allan Nevins]], American journalist and historian (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cIvYeUwBeTkC&pg=PA758|year=1971|publisher=Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration|pages=758}}</ref>
*[[March 7]] – [[Stevie Smith]] (Florence Margaret Smith), English poet and novelist (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Sanford Sternlicht|title=Stevie Smith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=owsOAAAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6990-6|pages=11–16}}</ref>
*[[March 21]] – [[Kyūya Fukada]] (深田 久弥), Japanese writer and mountaineer (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])
*[[March 23]] – [[Simon Vestdijk]], Dutch writer (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Sara Pendergast|author2=Tom Pendergast|title=Reference Guide to World Literature: Authors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OaURAQAAMAAJ|year=2003|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-491-7|page=1059}}</ref>
*[[April 10]] – [[André Billy (writer)|André Billy]], French novelist (born [[1882 in literature|1882]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/12/archives/andre-billy-88-riti3-in-france-dean-of-the-goncourt-panel-and-a.html|title=Andre Billy, 88, critic in France|date=April 12, 1971|website=New York Times|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref>
*[[April 13]] – [[Juhan Smuul]], Estonian writer (born [[1922 in literature|1922]])
*[[April 15]] – [[Friedebert Tuglas]], Estonian writer and critic (born [[1886 in literature|1886]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Books Abroad|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NzkMAAAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=University of Oklahoma|page=636}}</ref>
*[[May 19]] – [[Ogden Nash]], American poet and humorist (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ron Padgett|title=World Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins-William Shakespeare|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HoHAQAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|isbn=978-0-684-80609-9|page=245}}</ref>
*[[May 20]] – [[Waldo Williams]], Welsh-language poet (born [[1904 in literature|1904]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Poetry Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mcdlAAAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=C. Davies|page=3}}</ref>
*[[June 1]] – [[Reinhold Niebuhr]], American theologian (born [[1892 in literature|1892]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Wightman Fox|title=Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-KfAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=978-0-06-250343-5|page=292}}</ref>
*[[June 4]] – [[György Lukács]] (György Bernát Löwinger), Hungarian philosopher and critic (born [[1885 in literature|1885]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Judith Marcus|author2=Zoltan Tarr|title=Georg Lukacs: Theory, Culture, and Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bJDEagebvS0C&pg=RA1-PA207|date=1 January 1989|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-2451-4|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[June 5]] – [[Clifford Dyment]], English poet (born [[1914 in literature|1914]])<ref>Peter Dale, [https://books.google.com/books?id=eCncG0ao_PEC "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}}</ref>
*[[June 6]] – [[Edward Andrade]], English writer, poet and physicist (born [[1887 in literature|1887]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Symons|title=The Jewish Contribution to the 20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QpAbAQAAMAAJ|year=1997|publisher=Polo Pub.|isbn=978-0-9523751-1-1|page=1}}</ref>
*[[July 4]]
**[[Maurice Bowra]], English poet, humorist and Oxford don (born [[1898 in literature|1898]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Stephen Spender|author2=Irving Kristol|title=Encounter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ikdAQAAMAAJ|date=July 1972|publisher=Encounter Limited|page=11}}</ref>
**[[August Derleth]], American writer and anthologist (heart attack, born [[1909 in literature|1909]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael Ashley|title=The History of the Science-fiction Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Awj6AF-BZTcC&pg=PA300|year=2000|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-779-2|pages=300}}</ref>
*[[July 7]] – [[Claude Gauvreau]], Québécois Canadian poet and dramatist (born [[1925 in literature|1925]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Claude Gauvreau|title=The Charge of the Expormidable Moose|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yDoMosgMerMC&pg=PA155|year=1996|publisher=Exile Editions, Ltd.|isbn=978-1-55096-181-2|pages=155}}</ref>
*[[July 27]] – [[Jacques Lusseyran]], French author and Resistance fighter (car crash, born [[1924 in literature|1924]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buchenwald.de/en/1236/|title=Jacques Lusseyran|website=Buchenwald.de|access-date=March 25, 2021}}</ref>
*[[August 30]] – [[Peter Fleming (writer)|Peter Fleming]], English travel writer and traveller (born [[1907 in literature|1907]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Frank C. Roberts|title=Obituaries from the Times: Including an Index to All Obituaries and Tributes Appearing in the Times During the Years 1951-1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GyYOAQAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Newspaper Archive Developments|isbn=978-0-903713-97-9|page=185}}</ref>
*[[October 13]] – [[János Kemény (author)|János Kemény]], American-born Hungarian writer and editor (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])
*[[October 21]] – [[Naoya Shiga]], Japanese novelist (pneumonia, born [[1883 in literature|1883]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Grolier Incorporated|title=The Encyclopedia Americana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9X4hAQAAIAAJ|date=March 1998|publisher=Grolier Incorporated|page=712}}</ref>
*[[October 25]] – [[Philip Wylie]], American novelist and non-fiction writer (born [[1902 in literature|1902]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Clifford P. Bendau|title=Still Worlds Collide: Philip Wylie and the End of the American Dream|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K9mui-xFL9IC&pg=PA4|date=1 January 1980|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=978-0-89370-244-1|pages=4}}</ref>
*November – [[Lucia Mantu]], Romanian writer (born [[1888 in literature|1888]])<ref>Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 592. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. {{ISBN|973-697-758-7}}</ref>
*[[November 1]] – [[Gertrud von Le Fort]], German novelist, poet and essayist (born [[1876 in literature|1876]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Katharina M. Wilson|author2=M. Wilson|title=An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Wf1SVbGFg8C&pg=PA459|year=1991|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8240-8547-6|pages=459}}</ref>
*[[November 10]] – [[Walter Van Tilburg Clark]], American novelist (cancer, born [[1909 in literature|1909]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Lawrence L. Lee|title=Walter Van Tilburg Clark|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2HohAQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Boise State College|isbn=978-0-88430-007-6|pages=13–16}}</ref>
*[[November 11]] – [[A. P. Herbert]], English humorist, novelist and politician (born [[1890 in literature|1890]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Stanley Weintraub|title=Modern British Dramatists, 1900-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCdaAAAAYAAJ|year=1982|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-0937-1|page=231}}</ref>
*[[November 28]] – [[Dimitrie Stelaru]] (Dumitru Petrescu), Romanian poet and novelist (cirrhosis, born [[1917 in literature|1917]])
*[[November 29]] – [[Edith Tolkien]] (née Bratt), English wife of [[J. R. R. Tolkien]] (born [[1889 in literature|1889]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul Simpson|author2=Angie Errigo|title=The Rough Guide to the Lord of the Rings|publisher=Rough Guides|year=2003|ISBN=9781843532750|page=48}}</ref>
*[[December 5]] – [[Gaito Gazdanov]], Russian-born novelist (born [[1903 in literature|1903]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Neil Cornwell|title=Reference Guide to Russian Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uXxEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA318|date=2 December 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-26070-6|pages=318}}</ref>
*[[December 22]] – [[Godfried Bomans]], Dutch writer and broadcaster (heart attack, born [[1913 in literature|1913]])
*[[December 25]] – [[S. Foster Damon]], American critic and poet (born [[1893 in literature|1893]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Gale Cengage|title=American Poets, 1880-1945, First Series|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vp7WAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=978-0-8103-1723-9|page=93}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[[Nobel Prize for Literature]]: [[Pablo Neruda]]

===Canada===
*See [[1971 Governor General's Awards]] for complete list.

===France===
*[[Prix Goncourt]]: [[Jacques Laurent]], ''[[Les Bêtises (novel)|Les Bêtises]]''
*[[Prix Médicis]]: [[Pascal Lainé]], ''L'Irrévolution''

===United Kingdom===
*[[Booker Prize]]: [[V. S. Naipaul]], ''[[In a Free State]]''
*[[Carnegie Medal (literary award)|Carnegie Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Ivan Southall]], ''[[Josh (novel)|Josh]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 660</ref>
*[[Cholmondeley Award]]: [[Charles Causley]], [[Gavin Ewart]], [[Hugo Williams]]
*[[Eric Gregory Award]]: [[Martin Booth]], [[Florence Bull]], [[John Pook]], [[D. M. Warman]], [[John Welch (poet)|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===
*[[Frost Medal]]: [[Melville Cane]]
*[[Hugo Award]]: [[Larry Niven]], ''[[Ringworld]]''
*[[Nebula Award]]: [[Robert Silverberg]], ''[[A Time of Changes]]''
*[[Newbery Medal]] for [[children's literature]]: [[Betsy Byars]], ''[[Summer of the Swans]]''<ref>Hahn 2015, p. 657</ref>
*[[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''

===Elsewhere===
*[[Akutagawa Prize]]: [[Azuma Mineo]], ''Okinawan Boy''
*[[Miles Franklin Award]]: [[David Ireland (author)|David Ireland]], ''[[The Unknown Industrial Prisoner]]''
*[[Alfaguara Prize]]: [[Luis Berenguer]], ''Leña verde''
*[[Premio Nadal]]: [[José María Requena]], ''El cuajarón''
*[[Viareggio Prize]]: [[Ugo Attardi]], ''L'erede selvaggio''

==Notes==

* {{cite book |last1=Hahn |first1=Daniel |title=The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford. University Press |isbn=9780198715542 |edition=2nd}}

==References==
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