Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke, born Dinesen, was a Danish author who wrote in both Danish and English. She is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life in Kenya, and for her story Babette's Feast, both of which were adapted into Academy Award winning films, as well as for her collection Seven Gothic Tales. Her later story collections include Winter's Tales (1942), Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958), and Ehrengard (1963), and she was considered several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature without winning, which Danish reports attributed to the judges' concern about perceived favoritism toward Scandinavian writers. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardDanish Critics Prize for Literature, 1957. 1 AwardDe Gyldne Laurbær, 1952. 1 AwardTagea Brandt Rejselegat, 1939. 1 Classification
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Source Out of Africa (Wikipedia)
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1. Karen Blixen (Wikipedia)
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Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke ... was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English.
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Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke, born Dinesen, was a Danish author who wrote in both Danish and English.
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Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885-7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Award: Danish Critics Prize for Literature
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885-7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Award: Tagea Brandt Rejselegat
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885-7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Award: Ingenio et arti
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885-7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Award: Holberg Medal
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885-7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
Award: De Gyldne Laurbær
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885-7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
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Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen.
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