Article: Viewing Karen Blixen's home in Denmark

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.

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