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Article: Viewing Karen Blixen's home in Denmark
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 19, 1989
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Q.A couple of years ago, after seeing "Out of Africa," I visited
the house where Karen Blixen lived, outside Nairobi, Kenya. I would
also like to visit Blixen's Denmark home. Can you give me details?
A.The Danish author Karen Blixen - who used the pen name Isak
Dinesen (her maiden name was Dinesen) - was born in 1885 at
Rungstedlund, about 15 miles north of Copenhagen. When she married
Baron Bror von Blixen, the couple emigrated to Africa, and she
occupied the farmhouse there from 1913 to 1931. She then returned to
Rungstedlund, where she lived until her death in 1962.
Her ...