![]() ![]() 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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