Isak Dinesen
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Dinesen, Isak, pseudonym
of Baroness Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke, née Dinesen (1885-1962), Danish
writer, born in Rungsted. She studied painting in various European cities. In
1914 she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, and went to live in
British East Africa (now Kenya) on a coffee plantation. After her divorce in
1921 she remained in Africa, returning to Denmark in 1931. Her first book of
stories, Seven Gothic Tales (1934),
dealt in highly polished and subtle prose with the world of the supernatural, as
did most of her later fiction. Out of
Africa (1937), which was made into a movie released in 1985, was based on
her experiences on the plantation. Her only novel, The Angelic Avengers (1944; trans. 1947), was published under the
name Pierre Andrézel; it describes in allegorical terms the plight of Denmark
during the German occupation in World War II. Dinesen's later works include Winter's Tales (1943); Last Tales (1957), another collection of
stories of the supernatural; and Shadows
on the Grass (1960), Sketches of
African life. She wrote both the Danish version and the English version of
all her works.
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