Selected writings (published in Danish under name Karen Blixen, except as noted, and in English under Isak Dinesen): Writer (1907–62) with husband Baron Blixen, managed a coffee plantation in British East Africa (now Nairobi, Kenya, 1913–21) took over management until failing coffee prices forced her to give up the farm in 1931 commissioned by three Scandinavian newspapers to write a series of 12 articles on wartime Berlin, Paris, and London (1940) became one of the founding members of the Danish Academy (November 28, 1960). Ingenio et Arti Medal from King Frederick IX of Denmark (1950) The Golden Laurels (1952) Hans Christian Andersen Prize (1955) Danish Critics' Prize (1957) Henri Nathansen Memorial Fund award (1957). Born Karen Christentze Dinesen on April 17, 1885, in Rungsted, Denmark died on September 7, 1962, in Rungsted daughter of Wilhelm (an army officer and writer under his own name and his Indian name Boganis) and Ingeborg (Westenholz) Dinesen studied English at Oxford University, 1904 studied painting at Royal Academy in Copenhagen, in Paris, 1910, and in Rome married Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke (a big-game hunter and writer), Janu(divorced 1921). Name variations: Karen Blixen Karen Blixen-Finecke (pseudonyms) Pierre Andrézel, Tania B., and Osceola.

Danish writer, author of tales from Africa, who was a major literary figure of the 20th century.

Isak dinesen short stories