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Biography of Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke
Name: Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke
Birth Date: April 17, 1885
Death Date: September 6, 1962
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: Danish
Gender: Female
Occupations: author
Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke
Isak Dinesen was the pseudonym used by the Danish author Karen Dinesen Blixen-Finecke (1885-1962). Her stories place her among Denmark's greatest authors.Isak Dinesen was born on April 17, 1885, the daughter of a wealthy landowner, adventurer, and author. In 1914 she went to Africa, married, and bought a coffee plantation. After her divorce in 1921 she managed the plantation alone until economic disaster forced her to return to Denmark in 1931, where she lived the rest of her life on the family estate, Rungstedlund, near Copenhagen.The years in Africa were the happiest of Dinesen's life, for she felt, from the first, that she belonged there. Had she not been forced to leave, she wrote later, she would not have become an author. In the dark days just before leaving, she began to write down some of the stories she had told to her friends among the colonists and natives. She wrote in English, the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…achieve world fame since Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard. Her influence on Danish literature was especially strong in the 1950s when, through her stories and personal contact, she was an inspiration to younger authors searching for new means of expression. She died on Sept. 6, 1962. Further Reading Useful studies of Dinesen in English are Eric O. Johannesson, The World of Isak Dinesen (1961), and Robert Langbaum, The Gayety of Vision: A Study of Isak Dinesen's Art (1964). Dinesen, Thomas, My sister, Isak Dinesen, London: Joseph, 1975. Migel, Parmenia, Tania: a biography and memoir of Isak Dinesen: first published as Titania, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987, 1967. Pelensky, Olga Anastasia, Isak Dinesen: the life and imagination of a seducer, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1991. Thurman, Judith, Isak Dinesen: the life of a storyteller, New York, N.Y.: St Martin's Press, 1982. Henriksen, Aage, Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen: the work and the life, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.
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