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5 unusual facts about Karen Blixen


3318 Blixen

It measures 23.5 km in diameter, and is named after Karen Blixen, the Danish novelist.

Anecdotes of Destiny

Anecdotes of Destiny is a collection of tales by Danish author Karen Blixen.

Magleås

It was built in 1910 for businessman Aage Westenholz (1859–1935), an uncle of Karen Blixen who was a co-owner and chairman of the board of her coffee farm (Karen Coffee Company Ltd.).

Sigrid the Haughty

Karen Blixen, in the short story "The Deluge at Norderney" in Seven Gothic Tales, refers to Sigrid, claiming that she invited all her suitors to her house and burned them in order to discourage other suitors.

Stig Andersen Hvide

Karen Blixen: Fra det gamle Danmark (Vintereventyr) (1942)


Anne Born

She began writing poetry and, at the same time, translated Scandinavian writers into English, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen, Jens Christian Grøndahl, Per Petterson, Michael Larsen, Janne Teller, Stig Holmas, Carsten Jensen, Sissel Lie, Henrik Stangerup, and Knud Hjortø.

Hans von Blixen-Finecke

He was the twin brother of Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a famed professional hunter in Africa, and was thus brother-in-law of writer Karen Blixen, who was also their second cousin.

Jurij Moskvitin

Moskvitin notably describes how he became friends with Karen Blixen, how he had his first sexual intercourse in Paris, his first great concert in Cairo, and his mother's aristocratic friends.

Kenyan literature

The best-known of these include Isak Dinesen (the pen name of Karen Blixen), whose Out of Africa was the basis for the popular film starring Meryl Streep; Elspeth Huxley, author of The Flame Trees of Thika; Margorie Oludhe Macgoye, whose Coming to Birth won the Sinclair Prize; and Beryl Markham, author of West with the Night.

Marie Louise Kold

Recurrent themes in her art are etched quotations from writers such as the Danish Karen Blixen and Hans Christian Andersen, art-nouveau reminiscent angels, and large letters, framed by waves of colours brought out of the metal itself.

Rungsted Kyst Station

Rungsted Kyst is famous due to a range of Danish celebrity who grew up in the area including, Simon Spies, wealthy eccentric and airline director; Karen Blixen, world famous writer; Johannes Ewald, well known Danish poet and writer.


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Katholm Castle

When Adolph Wilhelm Dinesen died in 1876, his oldest son Wentzel Laurentzius Dinesen took over Katholm while Wilhelm later acquired Rungstedlund north of Copenhagen where Karen Blixen was born.