Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885, also wrote
under the pseudonym of Isak Dinesen. After studying art at
Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror
Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they went to Kenya to manage a
coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to
run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her
back to Denmark in 1931.
Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish
periodicals since 1905 (under the nom de plume of Osceola), her
real debut took place in 1934 with the publication of Seven Gothic
Tales, written in English under her pen-name. Out of Africa (1937)
is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya.
Most of her subsequent books were published in English and Danish
simultaneously, including Winter's Tales (1942) and The Angelic
Avengers (1946), under the name of Pierre Andrezol. Among her other
collections of stories are Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny
(1958), Shadows on the Grass (1960) and Ehrengard (1963). All of
these books are published by Penguin.
Baroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962.
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