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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
''
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''