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Bookmark or Share- Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller - National Book FoundationA brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Dinesen’s magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established her as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.
- The Writer Behind Out of Africa - JSTOR DailyAlthough Blixen sometimes wrote under a pseudonym, Isak Dinesen being her most frequent choice, she wrote Out of Africa as Karen Blixen. The book was her memory of the seventeen years she lived in Africa as coffee plantation owner Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke.
- Isak Dinesen | Karen Blixen, Out of Africa, Short Stories - BritannicaIsak Dinesen (born April 17, 1885, Rungsted, Denmark—died September 7, 1962, Rungsted) was a Danish writer whose finely crafted stories, set in the past and pervaded with an aura of supernaturalism, incorporate the themes of eros and dreams.
- The Art of Fiction No. 14 - The Paris ReviewIsak Dinesen is really the Danish Baroness Karen Blixen, and she is the daughter of Wilhelm Dinesen, author of a classic 19th century work, Boganis’ Jagtbreve (A Hunter’s—or Sportman’s—Letters).
- Out of Africa (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books): Dinesen, Isak ...This classic nonfiction by Isak Dinesen, about her years on a farm in Africa is an eternal, much loved,worldwide bestseller; has been selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time.
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