Dinesen

[din-uh-suhn, dee-nuh-]

noun

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

Dinesen

/ ˈdɪnɪsən /

noun

1. 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)

Example Sentences

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.

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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.

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‘What business had I ever to set my heart on Africa?’ author Isak Dinesen once wrote.

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

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On stage, the moment’s gravity never reaches a simmer, and there’s not nearly enough drama in the rest of Dinesen’s story to supplement it.

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