Meaning & use
Isak Dinesen
The pen name of Danish author Karen Blixen, best known for the memoir Out of Africa.
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Isak Dinesen drew on her years running a coffee farm in Kenya to write Out of Africa.
Students studying twentieth-century literature often read short stories by Isak Dinesen.
A note on using this word
Dinesen used a male pen name partly because women writers of her era faced more skepticism from publishers.
Words with a similar meaning
Karen Blixen
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