Thanks to a benevolent permission from this foundation it is now made possible to publish selected parts of The Karen Blixen archive on the web. Towards the end of her life Karen Blixen set up a foundation, Rungstedlundfonden, to which she left her house, its large park and the rights to her works. The archive contains, for example, her own bilingual manuscript for 'Out of Africa'. Karen Christenze Dinesen, Baroness Blixen-Finecke, writing as: DINESEN, Isak (1885-1962). Her mother was left to raise their five children alone. Her father was a peripatetic traveler, military man, politician, and writer who committed suicide when Karen was just nine or ten years old. Karen Blixen is one of very few authors who wrote with the same literary quality in two languages. DINESEN, Isak Baroness Karen von Blixen, 1885-1962. Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke, born Karen Christenze Dinesen, was born into a family of aristocrats, merchants, and landed gentry. The archive provides unique insight both into her life and works, as well as the creative process behind the individual works. papers from and concerning members of Karen Blixen's family Her correspondence after her return to Denmark with her family, authors, publishers and friends bears witness to a large and interesting set of contactsĥ. guest books, diary entries, for example from a four month stay in Paris in her youth in 1910Ħ. accounts from running the coffee plantation in AfricaĨ. drawings from the period spent in the preparatory class at the Art Academy in Copenhagenĩ. The Karen Blixen archive is unique in that it represents all genres:ġ. manuscripts, typed or handwritten, in both Danish and EnglishĢ. sketch books from her youth which contain rough drafts for stories accompanied by drawings, for example of characters from the French RevolutionĤ. letters both to and from Karen Blixen, especially a copious correspondence with her family during the years in Africa.

The Karen Blixen archive, which contains such rich and various materials that illuminate these works of international significance, was also collected and kept together at this place, until transferred to the Royal Library in 1969. And it was here that she wrote her seven books. Karen Blixen was born at Rungstedlund on Apand died the same place Septemat the age of 77.

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