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Isak Dinesen

Born

in Rungsted, Denmark

April 17, 1885

Died

September 07, 1962

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

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Pseudonym used by the Danish author Karen Blixen.

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish: [kʰɑːɑn ˈb̥leɡ̊sn̩]), born Karen Christentze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.

Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and for one of her stories, "Babette's Feast," both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures. She is also noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, particularly in Denmark.

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Isak Dinesen’s books

Average rating: 3.93 · 83,287 ratings · 6,069 reviews · 165 distinct works • Similar authors

	Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 49,023 ratings — published 1937 — 487 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 4.20 avg rating — 11,956 ratings — published 1937 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.84 avg rating — 8,025 ratings — published 1958 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Gothic Tales 3.86 avg rating — 3,820 ratings — published 1934 — 199 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter's Tales 3.85 avg rating — 2,632 ratings — published 1942 — 135 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.92 avg rating — 2,245 ratings — published 1958 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.83 avg rating — 1,529 ratings — published 1960 — 109 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ehrengard by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.49 avg rating — 859 ratings — published 1962 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.94 avg rating — 728 ratings — published 1958 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, Frans Lasson (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 600 ratings — published 1931 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Isak Dinesen

Out of Africa (2 books)
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Quotes by Isak Dinesen (?)

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

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“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”
― Isak Dinesen

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“It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings”
― Isak Dinesen

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October 2022 Revisit the Shelf Poll

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929) 296 pp., last read July 2018

60 votes, 23.6%

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898), 121 pages, last read Nov 2013

47 votes, 18.5%

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969) 289 pp., last read Sept. 2017

42 votes, 16.5%

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier (1935), pp. 302, last read April 2013

40 votes, 15.7%

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1596) 337 pp., (I bet there are a lot of notes in this edition) last read Sept. 2016.

26 votes, 10.2%

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1937), 401 pages, last read April 2012

20 votes, 7.9%

The Moonstone (1868), 528 pp. Last read May 2015.
Nominated by Kimberly: Sue, Sarah, Jen, Tara, (5)

19 votes, 7.5%

254 total votes

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