Dinesen

American

[din-uh-suhn, dee-nuh-] / ˈdɪn ə sən, ˈdi nə- /

noun

Isak pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen, 1885–1962, Danish author.

Dinesen British

/ ˈdɪnɪsən /

noun

Isak (ˈaɪzək), pen name of Baroness Karen Blixen. 1885–1962, Danish author of short stories in Danish and English, including Seven Gothic Tales (1934) and Winter's Tales (1942). Her life story was told in the film Out of Africa (1986)

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In 1974, he spotted an article by Ms. Thurman in Ms. magazine about the Danish writer Isak Dinesen and contacted her.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2023

Her Dinesen book, subtitled “The Life of a Storyteller,” received a National Book Award and partly inspired the 1985 movie “Out of Africa,” with Robert Redford and Meryl Streep.

From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2023

A biography of Isak Dinesen won her the National Book Award in 1983; her life of Colette, in 1999, was a nominee.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2022

He began by trying to convince two of his friends and literary soulmates, Judith Thurmond and Hermione Lee, who are well known for their literary biographies of Isak Dinesen and Virginia Woolf, respectively.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2021

I wouldn't mind calling this Isak Dinesen up.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger

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