Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) wrote works both in Danish and in English. She is best known, at least in English, for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed, Academy Award-winning motion pictures. In Denmark she is best known for her works Out of Africa (Danish Den afrikanske Farm) and Seven Gothic Tales (Danish Syv fantastiske Fortællinger; from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Blixen).
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Country life, Social life and customs, Danish Authors, Description and travel, Biography, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, Homes and haunts, Short stories, Danish Short stories, Manners and customs, Correspondence, Indigenous peoples, Intellectual life, Authors, Danish, Translations into English, Country life, kenya, Dinesen, isak, 1885-1962, Fiction, general, History and criticism, Juvenile audience, short story, Africa, history, American literature, Classic LiteraturePlaces
Kenya, Denmark, England, Jefferson, Alabama, Dublin, Eton College, Italy, Mississippi, New England, Owl Creek Bridge, United States, Yoknapatawpha County, Araby, Araby bazaar, Calcutta, Cambridge, Canada, Carthage, Chapelizod, India, Ireland, Kenia, Massachusetts, MilanPeople
Isak Dinesen (1885-1962), Karen Blixen (1885-1962), Colonel Sartoris, Emily Grierson, Homer Barron, Mr. Grierson, Peyton Farquhar, Tobe, Alonso, Antonio, Ariel, Beatrice Rappaccini, Bill Hutchinson, Billy Weaver, Caddy, Caliban, Ceres, Christopher Mulholland, Devil, Dilsey, Emily Sinico, Ethelred, Faith Brown, Farah Aden, FerdinandTime
1895-1963, 20th century, 1861-65, 19th century, Antebellum era, 1600s, 1861-1865, 1914-1918 r., 1918-1939 r., 20e siècle, American Civil War, Civil WarID Numbers
- OLID: OL135127A
- ISNI: 0000000118910457
- VIAF: 90663542
- Wikidata: Q182804
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q182804
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Alternative names
- Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke née Karen Christenze Dinesen
- Osceola
- Pierre Andrézel
- Isak Dinesen
- Karen (Isak Dinesen) Blixen
- Karen BLIXEN
- Karen Blixen
- Tania Blixen
- Pierre Andrézel
- Isak Isak Dinesen
- KAREN BLIXEN
- Karen Karen Blixen
- Blixen Blixen Karen
- Isak Dinesen;Karen Blixen
- Dinesen, Isak (pseudonym of Baroness Karen Christentze, or Christence, Dinesen Blixen-Finecke) [introduction by Dorothy Canfield]
- blixen-karen
- Isak (pen name used by Karen Christence Blixen Finecke) Dinesen
- Blixen Karen
- Isak [Karen Blixen] Dinesen
- Isak (pen name used by Karen Christence Blixen Finecke) (introduction b Dinesen