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Karen Blixen was a Danish writer best known for her short stories and her memoir "Out of Africa," which recounts her experiences living and farming in colonial Kenya. Her imaginative storytelling and elegant prose made her one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century, and her work continues to be widely read and studied today.
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- “I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong.”
- “There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.”
- “All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.”
- “Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 — to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.”
- “God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.”
- “The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.”
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Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while in Kenya, and for one of her stories, "Babette's Feast". Both have been adapted as films and each won Academy Awards. She is also noted, particularly in Denmark and the United States, for her Seven Gothic Tales. Among her later story collections are Winter's Tales (1942), Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958) and Ehrengard (1963). The latter was adapted to film in 2023 as the romantic comedy Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction.
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1885 births1962 deaths20th-century Danish letter writers20th-century Danish memoirists20th-century Danish nobility20th-century Danish novelists20th-century Danish short story writers20th-century Danish women writers20th-century pseudonymous women writers20th-century pseudonymous writersBritish Kenya peopleDanish baronesses