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Elizabeth Bowen

1899 - 1973

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Bowen is the 4,135th most popular writer (up from 4,224th in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 174th in 2019) and the 25th most popular Irish Writer.

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Among writers, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 4,135 out of 7,302. Before her are John Mauropous, Johan Turi, Pascal Lainé, Sue Townsend, William Thoms, and Titsian Tabidze. After her are Vasco Pratolini, Peter Straub, Hranush Arshagyan, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Melissa Mathison, and Jean de Brunhoff.

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Among people born in 1899, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 194. Before her are Richard Hartshorne, Alfred Blalock, Marcel Arland, Roger Vitrac, Armas Toivonen, and Gerhard von Schwerin. After her are Filipp Oktyabrsky, Jean de Brunhoff, Väinö Kokkinen, Hart Crane, Haddon Sundblom, and Carlyle S. Beals. Among people deceased in 1973, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 176. Before her are Charles Daniels, Harold Hotelling, Armas Toivonen, John Cranko, Alexander Rou, and Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. After her are Arturo de Córdova, Arcadio Larraona Saralegui, Hendrik Isemborghs, Gustaf Molander, Lauritz Melchior, and Emil Voigt.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 187 out of 549. Before her are John de Robeck (1862), Herbert Brenon (1880), Jack Gleeson (1992), Alan Cunningham (1887), Finn Bálor (1981), and William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620). After her are Violet Gibson (1876), Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848), William Howard Russell (1820), J. B. Bury (1861), Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie (1815), and Markus Feehily (1980).

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Among WRITERS In Ireland

Among writers born in Ireland, Elizabeth Bowen ranks 25. Before her are Charles Maturin (1780), Cornelius Ryan (1920), John Millington Synge (1871), Patrick Pearse (1879), Seán O'Casey (1880), and Edna O'Brien (1930). After her are Cecil Day-Lewis (1904), Colm Tóibín (1955), Richard Steele (1672), Brendan Behan (1923), George Moore (1852), and William Trevor (1928).

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