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Karen Blixen

Born

in Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark

April 17, 1885

Died

September 07, 1962

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Karen Christentze Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, other pseudonyms: Tania Blixen, Osceola, etc.
A Danish writer, who mixed in her work supernatural elements, aestheticism, and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life, Blixen always emphasized that she was a storyteller in the traditional, oral sense of the word. She drew her inspiration from the Bible, the Arabian Nights, the works of Homer, the Icelandic Sagas, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, who was her great fellow countryman. She wrote in English and in Danish.

Baroness Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, into a well-to-do patrician family. She was the daughter of Ingeborg Westenholz Dinesen, and the writer and ...more

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	Den udødelige historie by Karen Blixen, LA GRAPHIC DESIGN (Cover) 3.75 avg rating — 52 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Om ægteskab 3.52 avg rating — 44 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drømmerne 4.03 avg rating — 38 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samlede Essays 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	EHRENGARD 3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Karen Blixen i Danmark: Breve 1931-62 3.81 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Karneval og andre fortællinger by Karen Blixen, LA GRAPHIC DESIGN (Cover) 4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saison à Copenhague 3.19 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Danish Classics (Novellix in English #17-#20) by Karen Blixen, Henrik Pontoppidan, Herman Bang 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Den odödliga historien 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1958	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

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“Do you know a cure for me?"

"Why yes," he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water."

"Salt water?" I asked him.

"Yes," he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

tags: meaning-of-life

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“You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.”
― Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa

tags: adventure, africa, life

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Out of Africa by Karen Blixen

8 votes, 21.1%

On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham

5 votes, 13.2%

The Flame Trees Of Thika by Elspeth Huxley

5 votes, 13.2%

The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya by Frances Osborne

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Maharanis: The Extraordinary Tale of Four Indian Queens and Their Journey from Purdah to Parliament by Lucy Moore

3 votes, 7.9%

Lilla's Feast by Frances Osbourne

3 votes, 7.9%

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell

2 votes, 5.3%

Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark by Jane Fletcher Geniesse

2 votes, 5.3%

Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka

1 vote, 2.6%

The Temptress: The Scandalous Life Of Alice, Countess De Janzé by Paul Spicer

1 vote, 2.6%

The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri

1 vote, 2.6%

Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley

1 vote, 2.6%

The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays by Chinua Achebe

1 vote, 2.6%

On Another Man's Wound by Ernie O'Malley

0 votes, 0.0%

The Gentleman In The Parlour by W. Somerset Maugham

0 votes, 0.0%

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai by Robert A. Bickers

0 votes, 0.0%

The Mottled Lizard by Elspeth Huxley

0 votes, 0.0%

The Splendid Outcast: Beryl Markham's African Stories by Beryl Markham

0 votes, 0.0%

Shadows On The Grass by Karen Blixen

0 votes, 0.0%

Memoirs of a Political Officer's Wife: In Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan by Margaret D. Williamson

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