Isak Dinesen

Literary pseudonym of the author Karen Blixen (1885-1962). Karen Blixen was born and died in Rungsted, Denmark. She studied painting in Copenhagen, Paris, and Rome. In 1914, she went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation until 1931, when a market crisis forced her to return to Denmark. A few years later, she began writing and publishing her major works, usually under the male artistic pseudonym Isak Dinesen, in simultaneous English and Danish editions: "Seven Gothic Tales," 1934, "Out of Africa," 1937, "Winter's Tales," 1942, "The Angelic Avengers," 1944, "Last Tales," 1957, "Anecdotes of Destiny," 1958, "Shadows on the Grass," 1960, "Ehrengard," 1963, and other stories included in the posthumous collection "Carnival," 1977.