Karen Blixen (“Isak Dinesan”)

Karen Blixen (“Isak Dinesan”)

1885 – 1962

Karen Blixen, who wrote under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen, was a Danish author best known for Out of Africa (1937), her memoir of life on a coffee plantation in Kenya. She also wrote short stories and novels, including Seven Gothic Tales (1934) and The African Farm (1937).

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Item #307709 Vinter-Eventyr. Karen Blixen, Isak Dinesen

"Navigare necesse est..." Signed with Blixen's personal motto

Item 307709Vinter-Eventyr.

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Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandel / Nordisk Forlag, 1942. First edition. Signed on the half-title, with the motto Blixen adopted as a youth: "Karen Blixen.– Navigare necesse est, vivere non necesse." (To sail is necessary, to live is not necessary.) The famous quote is attributed to Pompey, who exhorted his sailors to.....  Read More Item Details for Vinter-Eventyr Add to Wish List

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