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Isak Dinesen

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The Resume

    (April 17, 1885-September 7, 1962)
    Born in Rungsted, Denmark
    Birth name was Karen Dinesen
    Baroness von Blixen-Finecke
    Wrote 'Seven Gothic Tales' (1934), 'Out of Africa' (1937), 'Winter's Tales' (1942), 'The Angelic Avengers' (1947) and 'Last Tales' (1957)

Why she might be annoying:

    After contracting syphilis from her husband, Baron Bror von Blixen, she wrote, 'It may be beastly to say, but gaining a title was worth it.'
    She chain smoked.
    She was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature without winning.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She helped hide Jews during the Nazi occupation of Denmark.
    The film adaptation of 'Out of Africa' won the Oscar for Best Picture (1986) and the film of her short story 'Babette's Feast' won the Best Foreign Language Picture Oscar (1988).
    After he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ernest Hemingway said, 'I would have been happy - happier - today if the Prize had gone to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 90.91% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 45.45% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 70.59% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 26.67% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 51 Votes: 68.63% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 30 Votes: 36.67% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 24 Votes: 54.17% Annoying