Isak Dinesen,was a famous Danish writer who was born in Rungsted.She has a pseudonym of Baroness Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke, nee Dinesen. She was born on 17th april,1885 in Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark .
Even from her early life she started studied painting in different European cities. She married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke,in the year 1914 and afer that went to live in Kenya , which was that time called as British East Africa, on a coffee plantation.The image below is her museum in Kenya.
She got divorced with her husband in the year 1921, but this doesnt stop her from staying in Africa as she remained in Africa till 1931.In 1931 sfe left Africa and returned to Denmark after 17 years.The image belows shows the house of Isak Dinesen, wher eshe lived in Africa
She was a very good writer and her first book of stories was "Seven Gothic Tales" which was published in the year 1934.This book mainly dealt in highly polished and subtle prose with the world of the supernatural and most of her later novels were also based on supernatural based.The image below shows the front cover of her book "Seven Gothic Tales"
In 1937 she finished another famous work called "Out of Africa",and it was very popular to an extent that it was made into a movie and got released in 1985.This film out of Africa was based on her experiences on the plantation, during her visit to Africa.This film evenyually won 7 Oscar awards.The image below on the left shows the Novel "Out of Africa" and the image on the films is the film released in 1985.
The only novel which was published under the name Pierre Andrezel is "The Angelic Avengers" which was published in the year 1944, which was later translated in English in 1947.In this novel she describes in allegorical terms the plight of Denmark during the German occupation in World War II.The image belows shows the front cover of her novel "The Angelic Avengers"
Apart from these works the later work Dinesen includes
i)Winter's Tales in 1943
ii)Last Tales in 1957
These two works are the collection of stories, which was based on the supernatural theme
She live in Africa for about 17 years and another novel whic sketches the life of Africa is the "Shadows on the Grass" which was pubilse in the year 1960.Yhe image below shows the fron cover of this novel.
The most important part of her work is that whic earned her lot of fans is that she wrote both the Danish version and the English version of all her works Isak Dinesen died on 7th September 1962 at Rungstedlund,Denmark in her family's estate, at the age of 77, and reports says she died of malnutrition.The image below is her grave in Rungstedlund, Denmark.
