Karen Blixen Biography, Husband, Books, Awards and honors, Museum, House, Camp and Video

Publish date: 2024-05-11

Karen Blixen Biography

Karen Blixen (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962)), full name Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote works in Danish and English. She wrote under her best known pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries, and Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries. She also used the aliases Osceola and Pierre Andrézel. 

Her best known works is Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette’s Feast, both of which have been adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures. She is also noted, particularly in Denmark, for her Seven Gothic Tales. Blixen was considered several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Karen Blixen Photo

Karen Blixen Husband

Soon after arriving in Kenya, known as British East Africa by then, she and Blixen were married in Mombasa on January 14, 1914. After her marriage, she became known as Baroness Blixen, and she used the title until her ex-husband remarried in 1929. By 1919, the marriage had run into serious difficulties, causing her husband to request a divorce in 1920. Against her wishes, the couple separated in 1921, and were officially divorced in 1925.

In 1918, Karen Blixen met the English big game hunter Denys Finch Hatton (1887–1931), an English army officer from an upper-class background. After her separation from her husband she and Finch Hatton developed a close friendship, which eventually became a long-term love affair. However, he died while on safari with his clients, in the crash of his de Havilland Gipsy Moth biplane in March 1931.

Karen Blixen Books

  • Out of Africa (1937)
  • Seven Gothic Tales (1934)
  • Winter’s Tales (1942)
  • Babette’s Feast (1950)
  • Shadows on the Grass (1960)
  • Anecdotes of Destiny (1958)
  • Last Tales (1957)
  • The Angelic Avengers (1947)
  • Ehrengard (1963)
  • Daguerreotypes and Other Essays (1979)
  • From the Ngong Hills (1937)
  • Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales
  • The Dreaming Child (1995)
  • The Invincible Slave-Owners (2014)
  • Eneboerne (1907)
  • The Old Chevalier
  • Isak Dinesen Herself Telling Two Stories
  • The Isak Dinesen Collection
  • Isak Dinesen’s Africa: Images of the Wild Continent from the Writer’s Life and Words
  • To Soar with Eagles: The European Travels, Remembrances of Isak Dinesen
  • The Caryatids: An Unfinished Tale
  • Pløjeren (1907)
  • Familien de Cats (1909)
  • Afrika, dunkel lockende Welt
  • Lettres d’Afrique, 1914-1931
  • Nouveaux Contes D’Hiver
  • Lettres du Danemark 1931-1962
  • Les Chevaux fantômes et Autres contes
  • Karen Blixen Seven Gothic Tales

    Seven Gothic Tales is a collection of short stories by the Danish author Karen Blixen, first published in 1934, three years before her memoir Out of Africa.
    Originally published: April 1934
    Publisher: Random House
    Country: Kingdom of Denmark
    Genres: Fiction, Speculative fictionn

    Karen Blixen Out of Africa

    Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa.
    Originally published: 1937
    Page count: 416
    Country: United Kingdom
    Genre: Memoir
    Characters: Kamante Gatura, Berkeley Cole, Kinanjui, Farah Aden, Denys

    Karen Blixen Awards and honors

    Karen Blixen Museum-Karen Blixen Kenya

    Karen Blixen Museum was once the centre piece of a farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills owned by Danish Author Karen and her Swedish Husband, Baron Bror von Blixen Fincke. Located 10km from the city centre, the Museum belongs to a different time period in the history of Kenya. The farm house gained international fame with the release of the movie ‘Out of Africa’ an Oscar winning film based on Karen’s an autobiography by the same title.

    The Museum is open to the Public every day (9.30 am to 6pm) including weekends and public holidays. Visitors are encouraged to be at the Museum by 5.30. Guided tours are offered continuously. A museum shop offers handicrafts, posters and postcards, the Movie ‘Out of Africa’, books and other Kenyan souvenirs. The grounds may be rented for wedding receptions, corporate functions and other events.

    For more information on the museum, click here.

    Karen Blixen House

    Karen Blixen Camp

    Karen Blixen Camp is an eco-friendly luxury camp that gives a sense of the exiting explorer days when the savannah was seldom visited and elaborate and comfortable camps were set up providing a luxurious and stylish retreat after each day’s adventure. For more on their services and about the camp, visit the camps website.

    Tamambo Karen Blixen

    This is the site of the original farmhouse which was the Blixen property. It is on Karen road, near the Karen Blixen Museum, about half a mile from the Karen Golf and Country Club. For more information Bout the site, visit their website.

    Karen Blixen Video

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