Isak dinesen

Read 80 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one…

Karen Blixen and her little African owl in the living room of her "farm in…

About Karen Blixen: Karen Christentze Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, other pseudonyms: Tania Blixen, Osceola,...

i love old book covers, so much character

My brother Matt gave me this vintage edition of Out of Africa for Christmas one year. I love everything about it: the graphic cover, the rough edges of the uneven paper, the library smell. The inside page says it's a Modern Library edition from 1952; there's even an old, folded up portrai

“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.”⁠ ― Karen Blixen⁠ Today we celebrate Danish author Karen Blixen on her birthday. Fun Fact! Her other pen names are Isak Dinesen, Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.

“Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.” ~ Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen, Out of Africa #quote