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However, this site was not where the Out of Africa was filmed, as the pictures were taken in Blixen's first farmhouse, Mbagathi, nearby, where she lived between 1914 and 1917. Nowadays the museum is situated in the upscale Nairobi suburb named " Karen ," which was created by the land re-parceling of the coffee farm, after Blixen's return to ...
Rungstedlund. / 55.88333°N 12.54333°E / 55.88333; 12.54333. Rungstedlund, also known as the Karen Blixen Museum, is a country house in Rungsted on the Øresund coast just north of Copenhagen, Denmark, notable for its association with the author Karen Blixen, who lived there for most of her life. She was born on the estate in 1885, and ...
978-0-140-09617-0. OCLC. 15085200. 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 ...
Familien de Cats. " Familien de Cats " (The de Cats Family) was the third short story written by the Danish writer Karen Blixen under the pen name Osceola, a famous early 19th-century Native American leader. Published in the literary journal Tilskueren in January 1909, it followed "Eneboerne" (The Hermits) and "Pløjeren" (The Ploughman), both ...
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Karen, Kenya. Coordinates: 1.3198°S 36.6988°E. Karen is a suburb of Nairobi in Kenya, lying south-west of Nairobi's central business district. The suburb of Karen borders the Ngong Forest and is home to the Ngong Racecourse. Karen and Langata previously formed a somewhat isolated area of mid to high-income residents, but the two suburbs have ...
In a series of autobiographical books, he described his complicated friendship with Karen Blixen from 1948 to 1955 (Pagten, 1974), his childhood (Solens have og skolegården, 1983; Hjørnestuen og månehavet, 1984) and his time as a student during and after World War II (Jordens hjerte, 1986; Ønsket, 1987).
Anecdotes of Destiny. Anecdotes of Destiny is a collection of stories by Danish author Karen Blixen written under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. It was the last work published during Karen Blixen's lifetime, on October 12, 1958. Two of the stories from the collection have been adapted into films: "The Immortal Story" as the 1968 film The Immortal ...