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Elizabeth Bowen

(Elizabeth Dorothea Cole)
Ireland (1899 - 1973)

Elizabeth Bowen was born in Dublin in 1899, the only child of an Irish lawyer and land-owner. She was awarded the CBE in 1948, and received honorary degrees from Trinity College, Dublin in 1949, and from Oxford University in 1956. The Royal Society of Literature made her a Companion of Literature in 1965. Elizabeth Bowen died in 1973.

Awards: James Tait Black (1969) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   The Hotel (1927)
   The Last September (1929)
   Friends and Relations (1931)
   To the North (1932)
   The House in Paris (1935)
   The Death of the Heart (1938)
   The Heat of the Day (1948)
   The Shelbourne (1951)
   A World of Love (1955)
   The Little Girls (1964)
   The Good Tiger (1965)
   Eva Trout (1968)

Collections

   Encounters (1923)
   Ann Lee's (1926)
   Joining Charles (1929)
   The Cat Jumps (1934)
   Look at All Those Roses (1941)
   The Demon Lover (1945)
   Ivy Griped the Steps (1946)
   Selected Stories (1946)
   Stories by Elizabeth Bowen (1959)
   A Day in the Dark (1965)
   The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (1980)
   The Bazaar and Other Stories (2008)
   The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2023)
   Stories for Winter (2023) (with others)

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Books containing stories by Elizabeth Bowen

Haunters at the Hearth (2022)
Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 34)
edited by
Lucy Evans and Tanya Kirk

Chill Tidings (2020)
Dark Tales of the Christmas Season
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 19)
edited by
Tanya Kirk

Into the London Fog (2020)
Eerie Tales from the Weird City
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 16)
edited by
Elizabeth Dearnley

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Awards

1969 James Tait Black Memorial Prize : Eva Trout: or, Changing Scenes

Award nominations

	1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen
	1970 Booker Prize (shortlist) : Eva Trout: or, Changing Scenes

Elizabeth Bowen recommends

The Military Orchid and Other Novels (2002)
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"Jocelyn Brooke's writing is imaginatively unique ... a great writer."

Dangerous Calm (1995)
Elizabeth Taylor
"Not a tale here fails to expand in the imagination of the reader."

The Chateau (1961)
William Maxwell
"I can think of few novels... that have such romantic authority as The Chateau, fewer still so adult in vitality, so alight with humor."

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