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Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish pronunciation: [kʰɑːɑn ˈb̥leɡ̊sn̩]), (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962), née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She also wrote under the pen names Osceola and Pierre Andrézel. Blixen wrote works in Danish, French, and English.
Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast, both of which have been adapted into highly acclaimed, Academy Award-winning motion pictures. Prior to the release of the first film, she was noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, for which she is also known in Denmark.
Peter Englund, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, described it as "a mistake" that Blixen was not awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature during the 1930s. She never did win, though she finished in third place behind Graham Greene in 1961, the year Ivo Andrić was awarded the prize.
Karen Dinesen was the daughter of writer and army officer Wilhelm Dinesen, and Ingeborg Westenholz, and was the sister of Thomas Dinesen. Her father's family, which she saw rarely, was of aristocratic background and held the lordship of Katholm.[citation needed] Her mother came from a wealthy Unitarian bourgeois merchant family. She spent her early years in the bourgeois environment of her mother's estate of Mattrup Manor near Horsens. She was later schooled in art in Copenhagen, Paris, and Rome.
Karen Blixen
Karen Blixen
Karen blixen
Karen Blixen after Africa
Karen Blixen i Afrika
Turner's Travels - Karen Blixen House Museum
Karen Blixen Museum (Kenya) - a personal view
Karen Blixen House Nairobi
RUNGSTED KYST - Karen Blixen museet
La Lionne : la vie de Karen Blixen en roman graphique magnifique
Karen Blixen - En Båltale (full album) 1987
Karen Blixen video
Store Danskere - Karen Blixen
Karen Blixen Camp, Masai Mara
Actors: Ove Sprogøe (actor), Toivo Pawlo (actor), Lasse Pöysti (actor), Toivo Pawlo (actor), Hans Alfredson (actor), Per Oscarsson (actor), Sven Lindberg (actor), Gösta Ekman (actor), Raymond Bussières (actor), Raymond Bussières (actor), Bernard Cribbins (actor), Bernard Cribbins (actor), Wilfrid Brambell (actor), Lissi Alandh (actress), Ove Sprogøe (actor),
Plot: Already in his childhood, Pablo Picasso show talent for painting and is sent to the Academy of Arts in Madrid. He becomes a painter but has to live in Paris in poverty. But one day he is discovered by a rich American millionaire and starts to earn money. But he wastes his talent by painting plates. He meets the famous people of the 1920s: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Appolinaire, Hitler and Churchill.
Keywords: art, fictional-biography, hitler, pablo-picasso, painter, slapstick