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In 1932 she met Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke – the former spouse of Out of Africa author, Karen Blixen. They met in Kenya and soon became lovers. After her meeting with Blixen in 1932, she took a bet and drove by car from Nairobi to Stockholm in 1932, thus becoming the first woman to have crossed the Sahara by car. [1]
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Last Tales (translated by the author into Danish as Sidste fortællinger) is a collection of short stories by the Danish author Karen Blixen (under the pen name Isak Dinesen), which was published in 1957. The collection contains a group of stories taken from several other collections Blixen had been simultaneously working on for several years.
Joanna Carolyn Penn, Baroness Penn (born 1985), known as JoJo Penn, [1] is a British political advisor. She was a baroness-in-waiting (a government whip ) from March 2020 to September 2022. [ 2 ] From November 2023 to March 2024, she was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing and Communities in the Department for Levelling Up ...
He was the grandson of Carl Frederik Blixen-Finecke, and the son of Baron Fredrik von Blixen-Finecke, a Hovjägmästare, and his wife Countess Clara Krag-Juel-Wind-Frijs. [4] He was the twin brother of Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a famed professional hunter in Africa who was married to writer Karen Blixen née Dinesen from 1914 to 1925. Hans had ...
The French-language phrase nom de plume is occasionally still seen as a synonym for the English term "pen name", although this usage is not French; at least according to H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler in The King's English, it is a "back-translation" from the English, the "proper" French equivalent being nom de guerre (a more generalised term for 'pseudonym'). [2]
Von Blixen-Finecke was born on 20 July 1916 in Linköping, Sweden, the son of Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke, who won an Olympic bronze in dressage in 1912, and his wife Baroness Brita Trolle. He was the nephew of Bror von Blixen-Finecke and writer Karen Blixen .
Baroness is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline by Hasbro, originally appearing in the first issue of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comic series by Marvel Comics in June, 1982. The Baroness is a villainess, associated with the G.I. Joe Team's nemesis Cobra.