All of these books are published by Penguin.īaroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962. Among her other collections of stories are Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958), Shadows on the Grass (1960) and Ehrengard (1963). Most of her subsequent books were published in English and Danish simultaneously, including Winter's Tales (1942) and The Angelic Avengers (1946), under the name of Pierre Andrezol. Out of Africa (1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931.Īlthough she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the nom de plume of Osceola), her real debut took place in 1934 with the publication of Seven Gothic Tales, written in English under her pen-name. Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.The film is based loosely on the 1937 autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), with additional material from Dinesen's 1960 book Shadows on the Grass and other sources. In 1937, the Danish-born writer Karen Blixen published Out of Africa, an autobiographical account, in English, of the seventeen years she spent in Africa.

Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. 'All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story': Grief and Gifting in Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen's Out of Africa and 'Babette's Feast'.

Title: Out of Africa (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Item Condition: used item in a good. Books by Isak Dinesen (Author of Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass) Books by Isak Dinesen Isak Dinesen Average rating 3. Isak Dinesens autobiographical novel, Out of Africa, recounts the years she spent on a coffee plantation in East Africa. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Author: Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen ISBN 10: 0140180419.

ISAK DINESEN was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885.

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