1971 in literature

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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[]

Children and young people[]

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[]

Main article: 1971 in poetry

Non-fiction[]

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 4 – Karl Martin Sinijärv, Estonian journalist and poet
  • June 28 – Sophie Hannah, English poet and novelist
  • July 17 – Cory Doctorow, Canadian science fiction writer[9]
  • 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[]

Awards[]

  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda

Canada[]

France[]

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

Notes[]

  • Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

References[]

  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. ^ Hahn 2015, p.43
  6. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 259
  7. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 622
  8. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 528
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Frank Northen Magill (1985). Critical Survey of Drama: Authors A-Z. Salem Press. p. 559. ISBN 978-0-89356-377-6.
  11. ^ Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration. 1971. p. 758.
  12. ^ Sanford Sternlicht (1990). Stevie Smith. Twayne Publishers. pp. 11–16. ISBN 978-0-8057-6990-6.
  13. ^ Sara Pendergast; Tom Pendergast (2003). Reference Guide to World Literature: Authors. St. James Press. p. 1059. ISBN 978-1-55862-491-7.
  14. ^ "Andre Billy, 88, critic in France". New York Times. April 12, 1971. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
  15. ^ Books Abroad. University of Oklahoma. 1973. p. 636.
  16. ^ Ron Padgett (2000). World Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins-William Shakespeare. Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-684-80609-9.
  17. ^ Poetry Wales. C. Davies. 1971. p. 3.
  18. ^ Richard Wightman Fox (1987). Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography. Harper & Row. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-06-250343-5.
  19. ^ Judith Marcus; Zoltan Tarr (1 January 1989). Georg Lukacs: Theory, Culture, and Politics. Transaction Publishers. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4128-2451-4.
  20. ^ 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
  21. ^ Alan Symons (1997). The Jewish Contribution to the 20th Century. Polo Pub. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-9523751-1-1.
  22. ^ Stephen Spender; Irving Kristol (July 1972). Encounter. Encounter Limited. p. 11.
  23. ^ Michael Ashley (2000). The History of the Science-fiction Magazine. Liverpool University Press. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-85323-779-2.
  24. ^ Claude Gauvreau (1996). The Charge of the Expormidable Moose. Exile Editions, Ltd. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-55096-181-2.
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  30. ^ Katharina M. Wilson; M. Wilson (1991). An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers. Taylor & Francis. p. 459. ISBN 978-0-8240-8547-6.
  31. ^ Lawrence L. Lee (1973). Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Boise State College. pp. 13–16. ISBN 978-0-88430-007-6.
  32. ^ Stanley Weintraub (1982). Modern British Dramatists, 1900-1945. Gale Research Company. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-8103-0937-1.
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  35. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 660
  36. ^ Hahn 2015, p. 657
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