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Isak Dinesen biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Baroness Isak Dinesen

Author Name:

Baroness Isak Dinesen

Born As:

Karen Christenze Dinesen

Other Names:

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke Also publishing fiction in Danish periodicals in 1905 under the pseudonym Osceola.

Born:

1885

Died:

1962

Writer

Selected Works:

Some of Blixen's works were published posthumously - including tales previously removed from earlier collections and essays she wrote for various occasions.

The Hermits - 1907 - published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola
The Ploughman - 1907 - published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola
The de Cats Family - 1909 - published in Tilskueren
The Revenge of Truth - 1926 - published in Denmark
Seven Gothic Tales - 1934 in USA - 1935 in Denmark
Out of Africa - 1937 in Denmark and England - 1938 in USA
Winter's Tales - 1942
The Angelic Avengers - 1947
Last Tales - 1957
Anecdotes of Destiny - 1958
Shadows on the Grass - 1960 in England and Denmark - 1961 in USA
Ehrengard - posthumous 1963 - USA
Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales - posthumous 1977 - USA
Daguerreotypes and Other Essays - posthumous 1979 - USA
On Modern Marriage and Other Observations - posthumous 1986 - USA
Letters from Africa - 1914–1931 - posthumous 1981 - USA
Karen Blixen in Danmark: Breve 1931–1962 - posthumous 1996 - Denmark

Mother Ingeborg Westenhol
Father Wilhelm Dinesen, who hanged himself in 1895, after being diagnosed with syphilis when Karen was ten.
Husband Bror Blixen. Karen was diagnosed with syphilis toward the end of their first year of marriage, which although eventually cured - some uncertainty exists, created medical anguish for years afterward. The Blixens separated in 1921, and were divorced in 1925.

Depicted on a Danish banknote
Depicted on a Danish postage stamp, issued in 1980.

Love is a tyrant sparing none.

Pierre Corneille, 1606 – 1684

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