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Elizabeth Bowen (Irish writer)

  • Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
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Bowen, Elizabeth
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Gender
Female
Date of birth
1899-06-07
Place of birth
Dublin
Date of death
1973-02-22
Place of death
London

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Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen ( BOH-ən; 7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer notable for her books about "the Big House" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.

In 1958, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson.

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