Karen showed an early interest in writing, creating stories, plays, and poetry.
Her mother was left to raise their five children alone. Her father was a peripatetic traveler, military man, politician, and writer who committed suicide when Karen was just nine or ten years old. A complex personality, Dinesen’s place in modern literature continues to be debated.īaroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, born Karen Christenze Dinesen, was born into a family of aristocrats, merchants, and landed gentry. This issue will be discussed later in this brief biography. Though admired as a master storyteller, contemporary reconsiderations of her work shed light on the inherent racism in her portrayals of the Africans she lived amongst during the colonial period.
One of her best known collections is Seven Gothic Tales, and a standout short story (turned film) is “Babette’s Feast” (1958). She’s also considered a master of short-form fiction. Isak Dinesen (Ap– September 7, 1962) was a Danish author best known for Out of Africa(1937), a now-controversial memoir of her life as the owner of a coffee plantation in colonial Kenya of the 1920s.
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