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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.

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 (novel) '' - John Gardner

'' Honor Thy Father '' - Gay Talese

'' In A Free State '' - V.S. Naipaul

'' The Last Spike '' - Pierre Berton

'' The Lathe Of Heaven '' - Ursula K. Le Guin

'' Lives Of Girls And Women '' - Alice Munro

'' The Naive And Sentimental Lover '' - John Le Carré

'' Natalie Natalia '' - Nicholas Mosley

'' 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

'' Space For Hire '' - William F. Nolan

'' A Theory Of Justice '' - John Rawls

'' Touching '' - Gwen Davis

'' The Winds Of War '' - Herman Wouk

'' The Winter Of The Fisher '' - Cameron Langford

'' Wheels '' - Arthur Hailey

NEW DRAMA

Peter Handke - ''Der Ritt über den Bodensee ("The Ride Across Lake Constance")''

John Mortimer - '' A Voyage Round My Father ''

POETRY

Maya Angelou - '' Just Give Me A Cool Drink Of Water 'Fore I Die ''

NON-FICTION

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BIRTHS

January 7 - Helen Darville , writer

March 10 - Ugonna Wachuku , Poet , creative Writer , Author

July 17 - Cory Doctorow , science fiction writer

December 19 - Tristan Egolf , novelist (d. 2005 )

DEATHS

March 5 - Allan Nevins , journalist

March 7 - Stevie Smith , poet

April 10 - André Billy , French Author

May 19 - Ogden Nash , poet and humorist

May 20 - Waldo Williams , Welsh Language poet

June 1 - Reinhold Niebuhr , theologian

June 4 - Georg Lukács , philosopher and critic

June 6 - Edward Andrade , poet and physicist

July 4 - August Derleth , anthologist

July 7 - Claude Gauvreau , poet and dramatist

August 30 - Peter Fleming , travel writer and brother of Ian Fleming

October 25 - Philip Gordon Wylie , novelist

December 25 - S. Foster Damon , critic and poet

''date unknown'' - Clifford Dyment , poet

''date unknown'' - St. John Greer Ervine , dramatist

''date unknown'' - Jacques Lusseyran , blind author

AWARDS

, ''Okinawan Boy''

, ''In a Free State''

See 1971 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

, '' Ringworld ''

, '' A Time Of Changes ''

, '' Summer Of The Swans ''

, ''Les Bêtises''

, ''L'Irrévolution''

, ''The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds''

Pulitzer Prize For Fiction : no award given

, ''The Carrier of Ladders''

, ''L'erede selvaggio''