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Odette Zoé Keun (10 September 1888 in Pera – 14 March 1978 in Worthing) was a Dutch socialist, journalist and writer, who traveled extensively in Europe, including the Caucasus and the early Soviet Union.
Nov 9, 2019 · A young European admirer called Odette Keun sent Wells a book she had written, an account of her time in post-Revolutionary Russia called Sous Lenin. Keun, the half-Italian half-Dutch daughter of a diplomat had, at 36, led a peripatetic and defiantly unconventional life.
Sep 6, 2019 · Twentytwo years his junior, Odette Keun was his fan long before they first saw each other, and she apparently even carried a copy of his Outline of History (1920) through her travels in the Caucasus and her imprisonment in Russia.
Among all the other travel stories on the Caucasus it was a unique book, written by Odette Keun, a woman of flesh and blood. Where the other, mostly British, writers describe how they suffered without wincing once, Odette was impatient, shouted, cried and had a love affair with a real Georgian prince.
Sep 27, 2020 · Odette Keun. Dutch journalist. 11 works Add another? Sorted by: Most Editions | First Published | Most Recent | Top Rated | Reading Log | Random. Showing all works by author. Would you like to see only ebooks ? And hell followed: a European ally interprets the war for ordinary people like herself.
The essayist Odette Keun accused fellow liberals in the 1930s of being 'spineless' in failing to meet the ideological challenges from Fascism and Communism.1 Of French birth and Dutch parentage, Keun, an avid traveller, was one of an international group of liberals preoccupied with world affairs and alarmed by the rise of totalitarian ideologies.
Odette Keun was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul), the daughter of a Dutch diplomat, with mixed Dutch, French, Italian and Greek origins. Her family's first language was French and she was educated by an English nanny.
