Karen blixen

This was not supposed to happen. In fact you could say it adds insult to irony: that a man so steadfastly dedicated to an unfettered life in the wilds should, in death, end up hemmed in, and so ve…

On September 7th, it was 50 years since one of Denmark's and perhaps the world's greatest writers died. Both known by her pen name, Isak Dinesen as well as her real name, Karen Blixen, she established herself as almost a living legend everywhere she went. The allure of Africa, the sombre feelings of Scandinavia, and her luxury of the old world made her a mythical creature in her own time. In Denmark she still casts a long shadow in the litterary landscape and writers are both fearful and…

“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” This is probably the first thing most people think about when they hear the name Karen Blixen. But there was so much more to one of Kenya’s most famous authors than ‘Out of Africa’.

Karen Blixen

After Kenya declared independence from British rule in 1963, there came a flood of renamings. Schools, suburbs, and roads were rechristened in ways that spoke to a new idea of what it meant to be…

Explore the life and legacy of Karen Blixen , the author who penned Out Of Africa and transformed her experiences in Kenya into timeless literature, redefining resilience and reinvention.

Karen blixen

Karen Blixen in Copenhagen, 1957.INTERVIEWERWhat is your favorite fruit?DINESENStrawberries.INTERVIEWERDo you like monkeys?DINESENYes, I love them in art: In pictures, in stories, in porcelain, but in life they somehow look so sad. They make me nervous. I like lions and gazelles.—Isak Dinesen, the Art of Fiction No. 14, 1956When Isak Dinesen gave her 1956 Art of... <a href="http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/01/25/do-you-like-monkeys/">Read More</a> <span class="link">»</span>

Baroness Karen Blixen and her brother, engineer Thomas Dinesen

Blixen, Karen (Isak Dinesen)

About Karen Blixen: Karen Christence Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, other pseudonyms: Tania Blixen, Osceola, ...

Karen Blixen costumée en Pierrot....

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author best known for her memoir Out of Africa, written under the pen name Isak Dinesen and adapted into the Academy Award-winning motion picture Out of Africa, directed

Karen Blixen aka Isak Dinesen