Karen blixen

The Archives holds postcards from Karen Blixen to publisher Charles Pick, a cablegram announcing her arrival in London and press-cuttings. Pick’s memoirs describe his first meeting with Blix…

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…

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke aka Isak Dineson French Maison Hermès has been searching through its archives and has discovered a beautiful luggage case that was specially designed for the ̵…

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

“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.” ~ Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

“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’.

Writer Karen Blixen (1885 - 1962) at her desk at Rungstedlund Denmark - Rungstedlund, circa 1950

Karen Blixen

Blixen, Karen (Isak Dinesen)

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…

Karen Blixen with her Scottish Deerhounds in 1920's Kenya

Karen Blixen aka Isak Dinesen

January 25, 2016 – INTERVIEWERWhat is your favorite fruit?DINESENStrawberries.INTERVIEWERDo you like monkeys?DINESENYes, I love them in art: In pictures, in stories, in

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

"All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them." -Isak Dinesen (Karen von Blixen)

karen blixen

Karen Blixen costumée en Pierrot....