Karen Blixen - Isak Dinesen home

Our hopes for Karen Blixen in the coming years:
In the near future:
1. A play by Harold Pinter of Isak Dinesen's "The Dreaming Child" (from Winter's Tales) will be developed into a movie.
2. A new book will explore questions about Karen Blixen that have been argued by scholars for many years.
In the not-too-distant future:
1. Karen Blixen in Denmark: Letters 1931-1962 will be published in English.
2. Karen Blixen's complete writings will be available on disk and will be searchable by topic. This will allow for a more thorough analysis of her oeuvre.
3. A 21st Century traveling exhibit about Karen Blixen will use the wide availability of technical media, including a short film about her with sound-track available in several languages.
4. A new Karen Blixen website produced in Denmark will present to the world news about Karen Blixen events, including new books by and about Karen Blixen, awards given in honor of Karen Blixen, and projects created in Karen Blixen's name. This website will be easy to navigate, filled with fascinating details, and feature quotations from Karen Blixen. Its dynamic information will encourage the already strong interest world-wide in Karen Blixen's life and works.
5. Karen Blixen's complete letters from Africa will be published, first in Denmark, then world-wide.
6. A new, 50-minute documentary produced for television will revive fascination with Karen Blixen's life.
7. An American publisher will specialize in a new line of works by and about Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen. The publisher will know that Karen Blixen's life and works appeal to a broad general audience. (Some ten thousand new presses are founded yearly in America; although large American publishing houses are no longer thriving, overall, the milieu is now ideal for cooperation between Danish and American publishers.)
8. A new, readable and accurate, comprehensive biography of Karen Blixen will be published, based upon primary sources.
9. Old animosities between American interests and Karen Blixen's Danish interests will heal.
10. Scholarly writings about Karen Blixen will appear in the vernacular (as opposed to academic jargon), enjoyable by readers of all nationalities. Background information about Karen Blixen will contain specific details and few esoteric generalizations. Illustrations of Karen Blixen will emphasize how she looked in life, rather than as she was dying.
11. There will be a new, open perspective upon Karen Blixen's legacy.
In the distant future:
1. A collection of Karen Blixen's short stories will include a separate telling of the inset tales found in her longer works. These inset tales, so popular with students, are already the length that appeals to readers, and are an ideal introduction to Isak Dinesen.
2. Eventually it will be realized that Karen Blixen's life was as important as her literary works. Some fifty million people around the world saw the movie about her life, and Out of Africa remains one of the most popular stories of all time.
3. Karen Blixen's protectors will understand that her legacy can continue only if she is written about objectively. Permission to write about her, either acknowledged or subliminal, will be a thing of the past.
4. The Danes, with their fine sense of humor, will understand that Karen Blixen's peculiarities and legend are part of their own national heritage. Denmark will be eventually as proud of Karen Blixen as of Hans Christian Andersen.

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