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* Pen name Isak Dinesen, but I like to use her real name because I spent my earliest childhood near Karen, the village ‘at the foot of the Ngong Hills’ which is still named after her.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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* Pen name Isak Dinesen, but I like to use her real name because I spent my earliest childhood near Karen, the village ‘at the foot of the Ngong Hills’ which is still named after her.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Sydney Pollack's 1985 multiple-Oscar winner is a sumptuous and emotionally satisfying film about the life of Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), better known as Isak Dinesen, who travels to Kenya to be with her German husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but falls for an English adventurer (Robert Redford).
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Some of the other early answers (incorrect) were Joyce Carol Oates, Rebecca West, Karen von Blixen-Finecke nee Karen Dinesen, pen name Isak Dinesen, and Raymond Carver.
Critical Mass 2008
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Some of the other early answers (incorrect) were Joyce Carol Oates, Rebecca West, Karen von Blixen-Finecke nee Karen Dinesen, pen name Isak Dinesen, and Raymond Carver.
Critical Mass 2008
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Sydney Pollack's 1985 multiple-Oscar winner is a sumptuous and emotionally satisfying film about the life of Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), better known as Isak Dinesen, who travels to Kenya to be with her German husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but falls for an English adventurer (Robert Redford).
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Thanks in no small measure to the narratives of Ernest Hemingway and Isak Dinesen, the prewar aura that had engulfed the safari endured for decades.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Thanks in no small measure to the narratives of Ernest Hemingway and Isak Dinesen, the prewar aura that had engulfed the safari endured for decades.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Finding an appropriate musical complement to the story of Isak Dinesen and her romance with both Kenya and Denys Finch Hatton to accompany the work of Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, cinematographer David Watkin and writer Kurt Luedtke, and Sydney Pollack's incredible direction, is Barry's greatest achievement.
Alec Baldwin: John Barry: Remembering One of the Greats Alec Baldwin 2011
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Finding an appropriate musical complement to the story of Isak Dinesen and her romance with both Kenya and Denys Finch Hatton to accompany the work of Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, cinematographer David Watkin and writer Kurt Luedtke, and Sydney Pollack's incredible direction, is Barry's greatest achievement.
Alec Baldwin: John Barry: Remembering One of the Greats Alec Baldwin 2011
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