Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Dorothea Cole BowenCBE ( ; 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.