The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales | Dinesen, Isak
Dinesen, Isak (pseudonym of Karen Blixen, 1885–1962), Danish writer and storyteller. From 1934 she wrote and published mostly in English. Born Christentze Dinesen into a wealthy, aristocratic Danish family, Dinesen studied literature and fine arts in Switzerland and in Copenhagen. In 1913 she married Bror Blixen and moved to Kenya, where she owned and later managed a coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills. Dinesen had published a few poems and stories in Danish journals since 1904, but her career as a writer began relatively late in life with the publication of Seven Gothic Tales. Although the tales were published after Dinesen's return to Denmark, they had already existed first in oral and later in written form before her departure from Kenya in 1931. Dinesen saw herself as a storyteller much more than a writer throughout her career. With the exception of her memoirs Out of Africa (1937, 1984) and the thriller Angelic Avengers (1946), she...
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