Dinesen's works are concise and fresh, full of fantasy, with the style of Homer's epic and Arabian Nights, which are fascinating and have international influence. British critic John Davenport praised: "In our time, few writers write as little and as well as she does." Hemingway also said at the ceremony of accepting 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature: "I will be happier if this prize is awarded to the beautiful writer Isaac Dinason."