Out of Africa

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Beschreibung

<p>Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they managed a coffee plantation in Kenya until they divorced in 1925. She continued on the farm until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Rungsted in 1931.</p><p>Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the <i>nom de plume</i> of Osceola), her real debut took place in 1934 with the publication of <i>Seven Gothic Tales</i>, written in English under the pen name, Isak Dinesen. <i>Out of Africa </i>(1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. All of her subsequent books were published in both English and Danish, including <i>Winter's Tales </i>(1942) and <i>The Angelic Avengers </i>(1936). Among her other collections of stories are <i>Last Tales </i>(1957), <i>Anecdotes of Destiny </i>(1958), <i>Shadows on the Grass </i>(1960) and posthumously <i>Ehrengard </i>(1963). In the 1950s she was mentioned several times as a candidate to receive the Noble Prize in Literature.</p><p>Baroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962. In 1991 her house was opened as The Karen Blixen Museum.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241951439

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

180 x 111 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)