Literary Award Winners 1971
4 winning results across 4 literary prizes in the catalogue for 1971. Years follow each prize’s official award cycle: the NBCC uses the books’ eligibility year, while its ceremony takes place the following year. Author prizes are labelled separately.
Prizes represented: The Booker Prize; Hugo Award for Best Novel; National Book Award for Fiction; Nobel Prize in Literature. Joint winners and historical format categories are shown separately. This list reflects available records; it does not imply that every literary prize has been announced or included.
| Year | Book / recipient | Award | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | V. S. Naipaul | The Booker Prize | winnerSource |
| 1971 | Larry Niven | Hugo Award for Best Novel | winnerSource |
| 1971 | Saul Bellow | National Book Award for Fiction | winnerSource |
| 1971 | Pablo Neruda Award for the author’s body of work | Nobel Prize in Literature | winnerSource |