Isak Dinesen







Isak Dinesen

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born
December 13, 1901

died
September 07, 1962

gender
female

place of birth
Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark

genre
Literature & Fiction


about this author

Karen Blixen - in full: Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, other pseudonyms: 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.
Baroness Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, into a well-to-do patrician family. She was the daughter of Ingeborg We...more




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Out of Africa Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
avg rating 3.96 — 1,741 ratings — published 1937
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Out of Africa and Shadows on t... Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
by Isak Dinesen
avg rating 4.10 — 390 ratings — published 1985
8 editions
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Winter's Tales Winter's Tales
by Isak Dinesen
avg rating 3.98 — 228 ratings — published 1942
16 editions
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Seven Gothic Tales Seven Gothic Tales
by Isak Dinesen
avg rating 4.09 — 211 ratings — published 1492
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Babette's Feast and Other Anec... Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny
by Isak Dinesen
avg rating 4.26 — 128 ratings — published 1988
4 editions
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Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehren... Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard
by Isak Dinesen
avg rating 3.95 — 77 ratings — published 1993
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Last Tales Last Tales
by Isak Dinesen
avg rating 4.32 — 50 ratings — published 1975
7 editions
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Shadows on the Grass Shadows on the Grass
by Isak Dinesen, Isak Dinesen
avg rating 3.98 — 48 ratings — published 1961
7 editions
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Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 Letters from Africa, 1914-1931
by Isak Dinesen
avg rating 4.23 — 44 ratings — published 1981
6 editions
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Anecdotes of Destiny Anecdotes of Destiny
by Isak Dinesen, Isak Dinesen
avg rating 4.05 — 19 ratings — published 1958
7 editions
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"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea"
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"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"
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"God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

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