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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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Average rating: 3.93 · 84,297 ratings · 6,200 reviews · 132 distinct works • Similar authors

	Out of Africa 3.91 avg rating — 49,659 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
	Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen 4.20 avg rating — 12,018 ratings — published 1937 — 35 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 3.84 avg rating — 8,214 ratings — published 1958 — 85 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 3.86 avg rating — 3,845 ratings — published 1934 — 7 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 — 2,651 ratings — published 1942 — 3 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 3.92 avg rating — 2,274 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 — 1,555 ratings — published 1960 — 103 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 3.49 avg rating — 882 ratings — published 1962 — 2 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 3.94 avg rating — 735 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
	Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, Frans Lasson (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 602 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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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

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“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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November Revisit the Shelf

The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851, 225 pages, Group read: 2011

77 votes, 26.1%

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1958, 209 pages, Group read: 2015

76 votes, 25.8%

Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1853, 1017 pages, Group read: 2016

67 votes, 22.7%

Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, 1937, 399 pages, Group read: 2012

45 votes, 15.3%

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 1958, 319 pages, Group read: 2015

30 votes, 10.2%

295 total votes

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