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Isak Dinesen

Born

in Rungsted, Denmark

April 17, 1885

Died

September 07, 1962

Genre

Fiction, Memoir

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Pseudonym used by the Danish author Karen Blixen.

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish: [kʰɑːɑn ˈb̥leɡ̊sn̩]), born Karen Christentze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.

Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and for one of her stories, "Babette's Feast," both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures. She is also noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, particularly in Denmark.

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Isak Dinesen’s books

Average rating: 3.94 · 81,157 ratings · 5,811 reviews · 157 distinct works • Similar authors

	Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 47,771 ratings — published 1937 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 4.20 avg rating — 11,823 ratings — published 1937 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Babette’s Feast by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.85 avg rating — 7,618 ratings — published 1958 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Gothic Tales 3.87 avg rating — 3,744 ratings — published 1934 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter's Tales 3.85 avg rating — 2,548 ratings — published 1942 — 135 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Babette's Feast and Other Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.93 avg rating — 2,176 ratings — published 1958 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.83 avg rating — 1,450 ratings — published 1960 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.93 avg rating — 720 ratings — published 1958 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ehrengard by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 3.48 avg rating — 784 ratings — published 1962 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, Frans Lasson (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 591 ratings — published 1931 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Isak Dinesen

Out of Africa (2 books)
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Karen Blixen

3.96 avg rating — 61,044 ratings

Quotes by Isak Dinesen (?)

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

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“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”
― Isak Dinesen

42 likes

“It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings”
― Isak Dinesen

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Polls

May 2017 Short Story Poll

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 64 pages, 1922

71 votes, 22.9%

Night by Elie Wiesel, 120 pages, 1958

44 votes, 14.2%

A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, 24 pages, 1955

36 votes, 11.6%

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, 40 pages, 1923

22 votes, 7.1%

First Love by Ivan Turgenev, 124 pages, 1856

18 votes, 5.8%

Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen, 54 pages, 1958

16 votes, 5.2%

How Much Land Does a Man Need by Leo Tolstoy, 66 pages, 1886

16 votes, 5.2%

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, 112 pages, 1970

14 votes, 4.5%

The Garden Party and Other Stories Title Story by Katherine Mansfield, very few pages, 1922

13 votes, 4.2%

Passing by Nella Larsen, 122 pages, 1929

12 votes, 3.9%

R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, 58 pages, 1920

12 votes, 3.9%

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, 138 pages, 1937

11 votes, 3.5%

Green Tea by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, 88 pages, 1872

10 votes, 3.2%

The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick, 69 pages, 1989

8 votes, 2.6%

Sultana's Dream by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, 64 pages, 1905

7 votes, 2.3%

310 total votes

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