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...

Karen Blixen is the most widely recognized figure in twentieth-century Danish letters, eliciting greater critical and popular attention than any other Danish writer of this century. The scholarly studies dealing with her life and works number well over...

Isak Dinesen - (1885 - 1962) (Born Karen Christentze Dinesen; also known by her married name Karen Blixen; also wrote under the pseudonyms Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel) Danish short story writer, autobiographer, novelist,...

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (April 17, 1885 – September 7, 1962), née Karen Dinesen, was a Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen wrote works both in Danish and in English. She is best known, at least in English,...

Karen Blixen: Two Photographs I hated you at first rumour, Writer of tales, baroness, White owner of black farms, Hunter posing over a shot lioness. Dark are the windows behind their backs. They are framed by the farm of your dreams, Eight African servants,...

Linda Donelson pictures the reality that was sometimes buried by the myth surrounding 'Out of Africa' writer Karen Blixen, who was known more as Isak Dinesen. 'Out of Isak Dinesen: Karen Blixen's Untold Story' retells Blixen's life story in a way that makes one...

In the following essay, Stambaugh examines Dinesen's portrayals of the effects of patriarchal Christianity on men and women in her short fiction.

In the following essay, Sexson utilizes Hebraic law to interpret Dinesen's “The Blank Page.”

In the following essay, Wilkinson views “Sorrow-Acre” as a rewriting of Paul la Cour's “Sorg-Agre” and elucidates Dinesen's authorial intent with the story.