Elizabeth Bowen

1899–1973

Anglo-Irish novelist and short-story writer, born in Dublin; her family’s seat, Bowen’s Court in County Cork, passed to her in 1930. Raised mainly in Kent, she published her first story collection, Encounters, in 1923. Her novels include The Last September, The House in Paris, The Death of the Heart and The Heat of the Day, set in wartime London, and during the Second World War she reported on Irish opinion for the Ministry of Information. She was appointed CBE in 1948 and died in London in 1973. Eva Trout, her final novel, was shortlisted for the 1970 Booker Prize.

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