SHADOWS IN THE GRASS (149 pp.)—Isak Dlnesen—Random House ($3.75). A long time ago, in Africa, Isak Dinesen saw two lions attack an ox. Unarmed but for a stock whip, she flew at the kings of ...

Isak Dinesen is widely recognized for her memoir “Out of Africa” in which she vividly recounts the seventeen years she spent on her farm in East British Africa, now known as Kenya. “Out of ...

He recently visited Isak Dinesen, the Baronesse Blixen, ... THE author of Seven Gothic Tales was born seventy-four years ago and given the name Karen Dinesen.

Liana Finck’s Illustrated Tribute to Isak Dinesen “Seven Gothic Tales,” like the biography of the Danish author herself, provides the perfect anti-romance for this Valentine’s Day.

EHRENGARD (111 pp.)-Isak Dinesen -Random House ($3.95). When ripples trouble the stillness of an evening pond, the motion of the water sometimes startlingly reveals the gloomy and voracious depths ...

Books & the Arts; August 12, 2009; In the Theater of Isak Dinesen In the Theater of Isak Dinesen A reconsideration of the fictive truths behind a storyteller’s many masks.

That’s why I am always moved by the stories of people like Danish author Isak Dinesen who grow passionately attached to a place. For Dinesen, ...

Danish author Karen Blixen may be best known for her 1937 memoir “Out of Africa”— widely published under the pen name Isak Dinesen — and from its 1985 Oscar-winning screen adaptation, in ...

Isak Dinesen News from United Press International. Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962), née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known under her ...

Scandinavian studio Nordisk Film has attached May el-Toukhy (Queen Of Hearts) to direct The Lioness, the upcoming biopic of Out Of Africa author Karen Blixen, a.k.a. Isak Dinesen.Script comes from ...

The author of more than 280 books, Yolen, ... "Winter's Tales" by Isak Dinesen. It has two of my favorite Dinesen stories, "Sorrow Acre" and "The Sailor-Boy's Tale." 3.