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Overview of the events of 1971 in literature
Overview of the events of 1971 in literature
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 Denmark to Iceland under naval escort.June 30 – Release of musical film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 's 1964 children's novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [ 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 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 Rolling Stone Ralph Steadman .
November 29 – Yuri Lyubimov 's production of Hamlet 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
Fiction
Children and young people
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction
Births
January 6 – Karin Slaughter , American crime novelistJanuary 16 – Helen Darville , Australian novelistJanuary 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 writerMarch 29 – José Luis Rodríguez Pittí , Panamanian writer and photographerMay 9 – Dan Chiasson , American poet, critic and journalistMay 25 - Nicole Luiken , Canadian science fiction writerJune 4 – Karl Martin Sinijärv , Estonian journalist and poetJune 28 – Sophie Hannah , English poet and novelistJuly 17 – Cory Doctorow , Canadian science fiction writer[ 10] July 22 – Akhil Sharma , Indian novelistJuly 23 – Mohsin Hamid , Pakistani fiction writerSeptember 3 – Kiran Desai , Indian novelistOctober 17 - Patrick Ness , British-American speculative fiction authorOctober 25 – Elif Shafak (Elif Şafak), French-born Turkish novelistNovember 5 – Rana Dasgupta , English-born Indian novelistDecember 19 – Tristan Egolf , American novelist and activist (died 2005 )unknown dates
Deaths
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]
Awards
Canada
France
United Kingdom
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
Elsewhere
Notes
Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542
References
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