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1971 in Australian literature

{{Short description|Literature-related events in Australia during the year of 1971}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2016}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2016}}

This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1971.

Major publications

= Books =

  • Jon Cleary – Mask of the Andes
  • Kenneth Cook – Piper in the Market-Place{{cite web|title= Piper in the Market-Place by Kenneth Cook|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2891266 |access-date= 25 November 2024}}
  • Dymphna Cusack – A Bough in Hell
  • Frank Hardy – The Outcasts of Foolgarah{{cite web|title= The Outcasts of Foolgarah by Frank Hardy|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/471870 |access-date= 25 November 2024}}
  • Donald Horne – But What If There Are No Pelicans?{{cite web|title= But What If There Are No Pelicans? by Donald Horne|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1942726 |access-date= 25 November 2024}}
  • David Ireland – The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
  • George Johnston – A Cartload of Clay
  • Thomas Keneally – A Dutiful Daughter
  • Hal Porter – The Right Thing{{cite web|title= The Right Thing by Hal Porter|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1371731 |access-date= 25 November 2024}}
  • Judah Waten – So Far No Further{{cite web|title= So Far No Further by Judah Waten|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2215813 |access-date= 25 November 2024}}
  • Morris West – Summer of the Red Wolf

= Short stories =

  • Elizabeth Jolley – "Bill Sprockett's Land"{{cite web|title= "Bill Sprockett's Land" by Elizabeth Jolley|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C87380|access-date= 24 November 2024}}
  • Hal Porter
  • "Brett"{{cite web|title= "Brett" by Hal Porter|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C157991|access-date= 24 November 2024}}
  • Selected Stories{{cite web|title= Selected Stories by Hal Porter|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1755280 |access-date= 24 November 2024}}

= Children's and Young Adult fiction =

  • Hesba Brinsmead – Longtime Passing
  • David Martin – Hughie{{cite web|title= Hughie by David Martin|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2001444 |access-date= 25 November 2024}}
  • Christobel Mattingley – Windmill at Magpie Creek{{cite web|title= Windmill at Magpie Creek by Christobel Mattingley|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/133627 |access-date= 25 November 2024}}
  • Elyne Mitchell – Light Horse to Damascus{{cite web|title= Light Horse to Damascus by Elyne Mitchell|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2888830 |access-date= 25 November 2024}}
  • Ivan Southall – Josh
  • P. L. Travers – Friend Monkey{{cite web|title= Friend Monkey by P. L. Travers|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/5514489 |access-date= 25 November 2024}}

=Science fiction and fantasy=

  • John Baxter – The Second Pacific Book of Science Fiction{{cite web|title= The Second Pacific Book of Science Fiction edited by John Baxter|publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?36406|access-date= 24 November 2024}}
  • A. Bertram Chandler
  • Alternate Orbits{{cite web|title= Alternate Orbits by A. Bertram Chandler|publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?752|access-date= 24 November 2024}}
  • To Prime the Pump{{cite web|title= To Prime the Pump by A. Bertram Chandler|publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?726|access-date= 24 November 2024}}
  • Lindsay Gutteridge – Cold War in a Country Garden{{cite web|title= Cold War in a Country Garden by Lindsay Gutteridge|publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?23102|access-date= 24 November 2024}}
  • Lee Harding – "Fallen Spaceman"
  • Jack Wodhams – The Authentic Touch{{cite web|title= The Authentic Touch by Jack Wodhams|publisher= ISFDB|url= https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?8298|access-date= 24 November 2024}}

= Poetry =

{{Main|1971 in poetry}}

  • Robert Adamson – The Rumour{{cite web|title= The Rumour by Robert Adamson|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1778951 |access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • Bruce Dawe – Condolences of the Season : Selected Poems{{cite web|title= Condolences of the Season : Selected Poems by Bruce Dawe|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2601586 |access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • Gwen Harwood – "Oyster Cove"{{cite web|title= "Oyster Cove" by Gwen Harwood|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C102986|access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • A. D. Hope – "Inscription for a War"{{cite web|title= "Inscription for a War" by A. D. Hope|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C129122|access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • James McAuley – Collected Poems 1936-1970{{cite web|title= Collected Poems 1936-1970 by James McAuley|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1077634 |access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • Dorothea Mackellar – The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar{{cite web|title= The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar by Dorothea Mackellar|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1994495 |access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • Geoff Page – "Smalltown Memorials"{{cite web|title= "Smalltown Memorials" by Geoff Page|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C215905|access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • David Rowbotham – The Pen of Feathers : Poems{{cite web|title= The Pen of Feathers : Poems by David Rowbotham|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1994519 |access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • T. G. H. Strehlow – Songs of Central Australia (edited){{cite web|title= Songs of Central Australia edited by T. G. H. Strehlow|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/481755 |access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • Chris Wallace-Crabbe
  • "Other People"{{cite web|title= "Other People" by Chris Wallace-Crabbe|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C33281|access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • Where the Wind Came : poems{{cite web|title= Where the Wind Came : poems by Chris Wallace-Crabbe|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/472022 |access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • Judith Wright – Collected Poems, 1942-1970{{cite web|title= Collected Poems, 1942-1970 by Judith Wright|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2655308 |access-date= 20 November 2024}}

= Drama =

  • Alex Buzo – Macquarie : A Play{{cite web|title= Macquarie : A Play by Alex Buzo|publisher= National Library of Australia|url= https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3547627 |access-date= 24 November 2024}}
  • Dorothy Hewett – The Chapel Perilous
  • Ray Lawler – The Man Who Shot the Albatross{{cite web|title= The Man Who Shot the Albatross by Ray Lawler|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C246186|access-date= 24 November 2024}}
  • David Williamson
  • Don's Party
  • The Removalists

Awards and honours

=Literary=

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! Award

! Author

! Title

! Publisher

ALS Gold Medal{{cite web|title= ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners |publisher= Association for the Study of Australian Literature|url= https://www.asal.org.au/awards/als-gold-medal/|access-date= 31 August 2023}}

| Colin Badger

|

|

Colin Roderick Award[https://www.jcu.edu.au/foundation-for-australian-literary-studies/colin-roderick-award/previous-winners2 "Colin Roderick Award - Previous Winners", James Cook University]

| Geoffrey Serle

| The Rush to be Rich

| Melbourne University Press

Miles Franklin Award[https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102206196 "Award", The Canberra Times, 29 March 1972, p3]

| David Ireland

| The Unknown Industrial Prisoner

| Angus and Robertson

=Children and Young Adult=

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! Award

! Category

! Author

! Title

! Publisher

rowspan=2|Children's Book of the Year Award

| Older Readers[https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110666933 "1971 Awards", The Canberra Times, 10 July 1971, p15]

| Ivan Southall

| Bread and Honey

| Angus and Robertson

Picture Book

| A. B. Paterson, illustrated by Desmond Digby

| Waltzing Matilda

| Collins

=Science fiction and fantasy=

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! Award

! Category

! Author

! Title

! Publisher

rowspan=2| Australian SF Achievement Award{{cite web|title= "Ditmar Awards 1971" |publisher= SFADB|url= https://www.sfadb.com/Ditmar_Awards_1971|accessdate= 21 November 2024}}

| Best Australian Science Fiction

| A. Bertram Chandler

| "The Bitter Pill"

| Vision of Tomorrow

=Poetry=

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! Award

! Author

! Title

! Publisher

rowspan=2|Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

| Judith Wright[https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C270019 Austlit - Collected Poems, 1942-1970 by Judith Wright]

| Collected Poems, 1942-1970

| Angus and Robertson

James McAuley[https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C62571 Austlit - Collected Poems 1936-1970 by James McAuley]

| Collected Poems 1936-1970

| Angus and Robertson

=Drama=

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! Award

! Author

! Title

AWGIE Award for Stage{{Cite web|url=https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awgau/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/17162451/Past-AWGIE-Award-Winners-1968-2016FINAL.pdf|title=AWGIE Award Winners 1968-2016|publisher=Australian Writers' Guild|access-date=27 June 2025}}

| Michael Boddy & Bob Ellis

| The Legend of King O'Malley

Births

A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1971 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.

  • 18 November – Leigh Redhead, novelist{{cite web|title= Leigh Redhead |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A84243|access-date= 20 November 2024}}

Unknown date

  • Helen Dale (born Helen Darville), novelist{{cite web|title= Helen Dale |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A48627|access-date= 9 December 2024}}
  • Libby Hart, poet{{Cite web |title=Libby Hart |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A23451 |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}
  • James Ley, literary critic and founder of the Sydney Review of Books{{Cite web |title=James Ley |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A70104 |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}
  • John Mateer, poet and author (in South Africa){{Cite web |title=John Mateer |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A754 |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}

Deaths

A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1971 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.

  • 19 January – Joe Walker, novelist and newspaper editor (born 1910){{cite web|title= Joe Walker (1910-1971)|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A21165|access-date= 20 November 2024}}
  • 3 February – Richard Harry Graves, poet and novelist (born 1897){{cite web|title= Richard Harry Graves (1897-1971)|publisher= Austlit|url= https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A9846|accessdate= 3 July 2023}}
  • 11 March – Frank Clune, novelist and travel writer (born 1893){{cite web|title= Clune, Francis Patrick (Frank) (1893–1971) by Julian Croft |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clune-francis-patrick-frank-9769|access-date= 1 September 2023}}
  • 10 June – Maysie Coucher Greig, writer of romantic novels and thrillers (born 1901){{cite web|title= Greig, Maysie Coucher (1901–1971) by Martha Rutledge |publisher=Australian Dictionary of Biography|url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/greig-maysie-coucher-10364|access-date= 23 September 2023}}
  • 30 June – Kenneth Slessor, poet (born 1901){{cite web|title= Slessor, Kenneth Adolf (1901–1971) by Dennis Haskell |publisher= Australian Dictionary of Biography|url= https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/slessor-kenneth-adolf-11712|accessdate= 23 June 2023}}
  • 11 September – Hilda Bridges, novelist and short story writer (born 1881){{cite web|title= Bridges, Hilda Maggie (1881–1971) by J. C. Horner |publisher= Australian Dictionary of Biography|url= https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bridges-hilda-maggie-5637|accessdate= 3 July 2023}}
  • 7 November – Minnie Agnes Filson, poet (born 1898){{Cite web |title=Minnie Agnes May Filson (1898-1971)|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A12675 |access-date=2023-09-01 |website=AustLit: Discover Australian Stories |publisher=The University of Queensland}}

Unknown date

  • G. C. Bleeck – novelist (born 1907){{cite web|title= G. C. Bleeck (1907-1971)|publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A17513|access-date= 9 November 2023}}

See also

References

{{reflist}}{{Years in Australian literature}}

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