HER STEPS IN AFRICA

STEPS OF KAREN IN AFRICA

KAREN IN AFRICA

KAREN BLIXEN IN AFRICA

PHOTOS

                                                        KAREN DINESEN

Isak Dinesen's biography.

Isak Dinesen (born as Karen Christentze Dinesen) was born in the 17th of April of 1885, in Rungstedlung, and she died on the 7th of September of 1962.

 She was a Danish  author. She wrote works in Danish, French and English.

Her father committed suicide when she was ten. Her mother stood alone with five dependent children.


 

Karen married her cousin Baron  Bror Blixen-Finecke, who started in Kenya a coffee plantation. Although they separated after six years of marriage.




 

 

 In africa, she learned Aboriginal languages and she met Denys Finch Hatton, with which began a loving relationship.
 

In 1931, Denys Finch Hatton was killed in his plane. Later she had to return to Denmark.

Dinesen is best known for Out of Africa, which account her living in Kenya; and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast.

Prior to the release of the first film, she was noted for her Seven Gothic Tales, for which she is also known in Denamark.


                                                                                                                         Yasmin Damun.

FACT SHEET

OUT OF AFRICA

The movie Out of Africa it's a Pollack film. It was written by Karen Blixen. Karen was born on 17 april, 1885. The movie shows how it was life of rich europs.
It was filmed in 1913, before first war mundial. Karen Blixen moved to British East Africa in late 1913 at the age of 28, to marry her second cousin.
In 1937 she published her Kenya movie Out of Africa. She had written it in 1915, while she was recuperating in a Danish hospital from a fight.
The film was directed by the American Sydney Pollack. This film received 28 film awards including seven Academy Awards.