This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1971.
For an overview of world literature see 1971 in literature.
See also: 1970 in Australian literature, 1971 in Australia, 1972 in Australian literature.
Jon Cleary – Mask of the Andes
Kenneth Cook – Piper in the Market-Place
Dymphna Cusack – A Bough in Hell
Frank Hardy – The Outcasts of Foolgarah
Donald Horne – But What If There Are No Pelicans?
David Ireland – The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
George Johnston – A Cartload of Clay
Thomas Keneally – A Dutiful Daughter
Hal Porter – The Right Thing
Judah Waten – So Far No Further
Morris West – Summer of the Red Wolf
Elizabeth Jolley – "Bill Sprockett's Land"
Hal Porter
"Brett"
Selected Stories
Children's and Young Adult fiction
Hesba Brinsmead – Longtime Passing
David Martin – Hughie
Christobel Mattingley – Windmill at Magpie Creek
Elyne Mitchell – Light Horse to Damascus
Ivan Southall – Josh
P. L. Travers – Friend Monkey
Science fiction and fantasy
John Baxter – The Second Pacific Book of Science Fiction
A. Bertram Chandler
Alternate Orbits
To Prime the Pump
Lindsay Gutteridge – Cold War in a Country Garden
Lee Harding – "Fallen Spaceman"
Jack Wodhams – The Authentic Touch
Robert Adamson – The Rumour
Bruce Dawe – Condolences of the Season : Selected Poems
Gwen Harwood – "Oyster Cove"
A. D. Hope – "Inscription for a War"
James McAuley – Collected Poems 1936-1970
Dorothea Mackellar – The Poems of Dorothea Mackellar
Geoff Page – "Smalltown Memorials"
David Rowbotham – The Pen of Feathers : Poems
T. G. H. Strehlow – Songs of Central Australia (edited)
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
"Other People"
Where the Wind Came : poems
Judith Wright – Collected Poems, 1942-1970
Alex Buzo – Macquarie : A Play
Ray Lawler – The Man Who Shot the Albatross
David Williamson
Don's Party
The Removalists
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.
Unknown date
Helen Darville, novelist
Libby Hart, poet
John Mateer, poet and author
Leigh Redhead, novelist
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.
30 June – Kenneth Slessor, poet (born 1901)
