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Karen
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History
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Karen
Blixen - Famous Danish Author |
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Baroness
Karen von Blixen-Finecke - 17 April 1885 - 7 September
1962 - was a Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen Legendary author and Baroness Karen Blixen with her pen name Isak Dinesen was born north of Copenhagen at Rungstedlund in 1885. For some years she and her husband established and ran a coffee plantation in Kenya. After returning to Denmark she seriously started to write - and her first book Seven Gothic Tales was publish in the US in 1934 -and probably she is best known in English for the book Out of Africa. Her writing during most of the 1940s and 1950s consisted of tales in the storytelling tradition. The most famous is "Babette's Feast" - about a chef who spends her entire 10,000-franc lottery prize to prepare a final - spectacular gourmet meal. Karen Blixen Died in 1962 at her beloved estate "Rungstedlund" and is buried on the premises under the shade of a huge old beech tree at the foot of "Ewald's Hill" in the beautiful landscape gardens of “Rungstedlund”. |
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