Has page numbers, please include the page number otherwise please includeĪ significant text string to help us to locate the error. If the contents of theīook, please be as precise as you can as to the location. Please be clear in your message, if you are referring to the informationįound on this web page or the contents of the book. mobi file on your mobile device, please use. She is also noted, particularly in Denmark, for her Seven Gothic Tales.īlixen was considered several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.-Wikipedia. Although the marriage did not last, the farm, known as M’Bogani, became the focus of her life and writing for the next seventeen years while she remained in Kenya.īlixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures.

She married the Baron Bror Blixen after following him to Kenya to start a 6000-acre farm near the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi.

Karen Blixen (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was born Karen Dinesen and came from a wealthy farming/merchant family in Denmark. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds.' Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called 'one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century.' She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories 'like Scheherazade.' In Africa, 'I learned how to tell tales,' she recalled many years later. Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. Africa, biography, non-fiction, film/TV adaptation

Out of Africa by Karen Blixen