Isak Dinesen (1885)

Better known by her pen name Isak Dinesen, Baroness Karen Blixen was a 20th-century Danish author who wrote primarily in English. Published in 1937, her autobiographical Out of Africa, an account of life on a Kenyan coffee plantation, was adapted into a 1985 film that won seven Academy Awards. Another adaptation of one of her stories, Babette’s Feast, was the first Danish film to win an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. What diseases may have contributed to her death? Discuss

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