by Judith Thurman · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140067422
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«Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen» is the biography of Karen Blixen written by Judith Thurman, published by Penguin in paperback (560 pages).
This book reconstructs the life of the Danish writer Karen Blixen, author of 'Out of Africa', who signed part of her work as Isak Dinesen. The biography covers her childhood, her marriage and her time in East Africa, as well as her personal difficulties and the process that led her to become a prominent figure in twentieth-century literature.
Text in English. The work won the National Book Award in 1983 and the Giovanni Comisso Prize in 1984.
For readers interested in biographies of writers, in the figure of Karen Blixen and in twentieth-century Danish literature.
Judith Thurman is an American writer, biographer, and critic. She is the recipient of the 1983 National Book Award for Nonfiction for her biography Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller. Her book Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette was a finalist for the 1999 nonfiction National Book Award. In 2016, she received the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
