Isak Dinesen

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April 17, 1885 in Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark

died

September 17, 1962

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Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, Tania Blixen, Osceola, etc.
A Danish writer, who mixed in her work supernatural elements, aestheticism, and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life, Blixen always emphasized that she was a storyteller in the traditional, oral sense of the word. She drew her inspiration from the Bible, the Arabian Nights, the works of Homer, the Icelandic Sagas, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was her great fellow countryman. She wrote in English and in Danish.
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Average rating: 3.99 · 12,034 ratings · 913 reviews · 50 distinct works

	Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.93 avg rating — 7,830 ratings — published 1937 — 84 editions	My rating:
	Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (Author), Karen Blixen 3.99 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 1934 — 34 editions	My rating:
	Winter's Tales 3.92 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 1942 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Anecdotes of Destiny & Ehrengard by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 4.01 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Babette's Feast 3.69 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 1958 — 21 editions	My rating:
	Shadows On The Grass 4.02 avg rating — 163 ratings — published 1960 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Babette's Feast/Sorrow-Acre by Isak Dinesen, Colleen Dewhurst (Reader) 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1993	My rating:
	Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny by Karen Blixen, Isak Dinesen 4.15 avg rating — 375 ratings — published 1958 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Angelic Avengers by Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel 3.36 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 1944 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Karen Blixen, Isak Dinesen 4.15 avg rating — 1,491 ratings — published 1965 — 13 editions	My rating:

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“The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea.”
― Isak Dinesen

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“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.”
― Isak Dinesen

tags: hope , inspirational , perseverance

25 people liked it

“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

tags: clever , foresight

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