1971 in literature

See also: 1970 in literature, other events of 1971, 1972 in literature, list of years in literature.

Awards

• Akutagawa Prize: Azuma Mineo, Okinawan Boy
• Booker Prize: V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State
• See 1971 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Hugo Award: Larry Niven, Ringworld
• Nebula Award: Robert Silverberg, A Time of Changes
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Betsy Bears, Summer of the Swans
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Pablo Neruda
• Prix Goncourt: Jacques Laurent, Les Bêtises
• Prix Médicis: Pascal Lainé, L'Irrévolution
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: William S. Merwin, The Carrier of Ladders
• Viareggio Prize: Ugo Attardi, L'erede selvaggio