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Karen Blixen


Born
in Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark
April 17, 1885

Died
September 07, 1962

Genre
Literature & Fiction


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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Average rating: 3.95 · 76,816 ratings · 5,123 reviews · 181 distinct works • Similar authors
Om ægteskab
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Samlede Essays
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Den udødelige historie
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Drømmerne
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Karen Blixen i Danmark: Bre...
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Karneval og andre fortællinger
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Den odödliga historien
3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1958
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Det ubeskrevne blad
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Daguerreotypier
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Mit livs mottoer og andre e...
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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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Polls

February 2016 Revisit the Shelf-Reread Poll

1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages
 
  24 votes, 16.3%

1935, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages
 
  18 votes, 12.2%

1980, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages
 
  14 votes, 9.5%

1952, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages
 
  14 votes, 9.5%

 
  13 votes, 8.8%

1899, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, 200 pages
 
  12 votes, 8.2%

1960, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 324 pages
 
  11 votes, 7.5%

1932, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 268 pages
 
  9 votes, 6.1%

1937, Out of Africa by Karen Blixen, 399 pages
 
  9 votes, 6.1%

 
  9 votes, 6.1%

1847, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, 507 pages
 
  8 votes, 5.4%

 
  6 votes, 4.1%

147 total votes
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