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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 .
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 [ edit ] Fiction [ edit ] Children and young people [ edit ] Non-fiction [ edit ] 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 (suicide 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
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 [ edit ] 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 [ edit ] Elsewhere [ edit ] Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542 References [ edit ]
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^ Gale, Cengage (13 December 2018). "A Study Guide for Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother"" ISBN 978-0-02-866534-4 ^ Frank Northen Magill (1985). Critical Survey of Drama: Authors A-Z ISBN 978-0-89356-377-6 ^ Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents ^ Sanford Sternlicht (1990). Stevie Smith ISBN 978-0-8057-6990-6 ^ Sara Pendergast; Tom Pendergast (2003). Reference Guide to World Literature: Authors ISBN 978-1-55862-491-7 ^ "Andre Billy, 88, critic in France" . New York Times . April 12, 1971. Retrieved March 25, 2021 .^ Books Abroad ^ Ron Padgett (2000). World Poets: Gerard Manley Hopkins-William Shakespeare ISBN 978-0-684-80609-9 ^ Poetry Wales ^ Richard Wightman Fox (1987). Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography ISBN 978-0-06-250343-5 ^ Judith Marcus; Zoltan Tarr (1 January 1989). Georg Lukacs: Theory, Culture, and Politics 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 ISBN 978-0-9523751-1-1 ^ Stephen Spender; Irving Kristol (July 1972). Encounter ^ Michael Ashley (2000). The History of the Science-fiction Magazine ISBN 978-0-85323-779-2 ^ Claude Gauvreau (1996). The Charge of the Expormidable Moose 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 ISBN 978-0-903713-97-9 ^ Grolier Incorporated (March 1998). The Encyclopedia Americana ^ Clifford P. Bendau (1 January 1980). Still Worlds Collide: Philip Wylie and the End of the American Dream 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 ISBN 978-0-8240-8547-6 ^ Lawrence L. Lee (1973). Walter Van Tilburg Clark ISBN 978-0-88430-007-6 ^ Stanley Weintraub (1982). Modern British Dramatists, 1900-1945 ISBN 978-0-8103-0937-1 ^ Paul Simpson; Angie Errigo (2003). The Rough Guide to the Lord of the Rings . Rough Guides. p. 48. ISBN 9781843532750 ^ Neil Cornwell (2 December 2013). Reference Guide to Russian Literature ISBN 978-1-134-26070-6 ^ Gale Cengage (1986). American Poets, 1880-1945, First Series ISBN 978-0-8103-1723-9 ^ Hahn 2015, p. 660
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