Karen blixen

The Archives holds postcards from Karen Blixen to publisher Charles Pick, a cablegram announcing her arrival in London and press-cuttings. Pick’s memoirs describe his first meeting with Blix…

About Karen Blixen: Karen Christentze Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke - wrote as Isak Dinesen, Pierre Andrézel, other pseudonyms: Tania Blixen, Osceola,...

“Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.” ~ Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke aka Isak Dineson French Maison Hermès has been searching through its archives and has discovered a beautiful luggage case that was specially designed for the ̵…

Karen Blixen (1885 - 1962)

“I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” This is probably the first thing most people think about when they hear the name Karen Blixen. But there was so much more to one of Kenya’s most famous authors than ‘Out of Africa’.

Blixen, Karen (Isak Dinesen)

Writer Karen Blixen (1885 - 1962) at her desk at Rungstedlund Denmark - Rungstedlund, circa 1950

After Kenya declared independence from British rule in 1963, there came a flood of renamings. Schools, suburbs, and roads were rechristened in ways that spoke to a new idea of what it meant to be…

Karen Blixen with her Scottish Deerhounds in 1920's Kenya

Karen Blixen aka Isak Dinesen

Karen Blixen costumée en Pierrot....

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author best known for her memoir Out of Africa, written under the pen name Isak Dinesen and adapted into the Academy Award-winning motion picture Out of Africa, directed

Karen Blixen

“I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” Isak Dinesen fr...

Karen Blixen and her little African owl in the living room of her "farm in…