Isak Dinesen
(1885 - 1962) Denmark
Writer
Born Karen Christentze Dinesen at Rungstedlund, married with Mr. Blixen-Finecke. Much of her early adulthood was spent in Kenya running a coffee plantation, which provided the material for her autobiography Den afrikanske farm (Out of Africa, 1937) and Skygger på graesset (Shadows on the grass, 1960).
In 1931 she returned to Denmark and began to write fiction, mainly in English, under the pen name Isak Dinesen. She is admired for her short stories, Gothic fantasies with a haunting, often mythic quality, published in such collections as Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Winters' Tales (1942) and Last Tales (1957).
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