Blixen

[blik-suhn]

noun

1. Karen. Dinesen, Isak.

Blixen

/ ˈblɪksən /

noun

1. Karen See Dinesen

Example Sentences

As a youth Beard had been entranced by Karen Blixen’s memoir “Out of Africa” and charmed Charles Darwin’s great-grandson, the explorer Quentin Keynes, into giving him a tour of the continent.

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There was a smoke-and-mirrors aspect to Blixen’s powers that was seemingly all in the service of concocting good stories, even if she wasn’t necessarily writing them herself.

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In isolation, a careening elephant against the backdrop of Kilimanjaro seems to channel the awe felt by European settlers such as his early idol, writer and big-game hunter Karen Blixen.

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After graduation, he traveled to Denmark and met and photographed Karen Blixen, who had written the memoir “Out of Africa” under the pen name Isak Dinesen.

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His next-door neighbour was Karen Blixen, the Danish author whose account of her life in Kenya was turned into the acclaimed Hollywood film Out of Africa.

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