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EVENTS
- SASS: The annual meeting of SASS (Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study), Madison, Wisconsin, April 30-May 2, 2009, included Kirstine Kastbjerg: "Danish Gothic: BS Ingemann, HC Andersen, Karen Blixen, and Peter Høeg."
- Speakers, Teachers, Reading, and Discussion Groups: If you present classes, courses, lectures, discussion and/or reading groups about Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen, please tell us about them.
- University scholars will be interested in SASS, the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, and the American Scandinavian Foundation. See also Canadian Institute for Nordic Studies and the Canadian-Scandinavian Foundation.
- 2008 publication of Budbringersken
by Aage Henriksen (Copenhagen: Gyldendal), a collection of essays about
Karen Blixen written from 1952 to the present. Henriksen's analysis
highlights the interplay between literature and
personality--underlining his personal view of Karen Blixen as at
once a demonic and inspiring force.
- 2006 publication of Danish Culture, Past and Present: The Last Two Hundred Years. Proceedings of an international conference sponsored by The Danish American Heritage Society. Des Moines, Iowa: October 13-16, 2005. Edited by Linda M. Chementi and Birgit Flemming Larsen. [The Bridge: Journal of the Danish-American Heritage Society, Index: Vol 29, No. 2, 2006.] Contents include: "Picturing Karen Blixen --Artist, Charlatan, Heretic, and Iconoclast: European Storyteller in the American Marketplace" by Marianne Stecher-Hansen, University of Washington, Seattle; and "Karen Blixen: The Quintessential Dane" by Linda Donelson, Independent Scholar, Iowa City.
- 2005 release of the documentary film Karen
Blixen: Out of this World, directed by Marcus Mandal and
Anna von Lowzow.
- 2005 publication of Jørgen Stormgaard: Blixen og Bjørnvig. Pagten der blev brudt [Blixen and Bjørnvig. The Pact is Broken]. Efterskrift af Frans Lasson. P. Haase & Søn, 182 sider, ill., 198 kr. This new book offers a juicy analysis of Karen Blixen's platonic love affair with the poet Thorkild Bjørnvig.
- 2005 publication of Grethe Rostbøl: Mod er svaret. Karen Blixens udgivelser i USA og England. Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 2005. Described as a discussion of Karen Blixen's battle to promote her books, this work sheds light on the process all authors face once the easy part--the writing--of a book ends, and the marketing begins.
- 2005 publication of Frank Egholm Andersen: Karen Blixen som ung. Bogforlaget Her & Nu, 2005. An analysis of Karen Blixen's youth, emphasizing how her early drive to perfectionism revealed itself as a personal characteristic that would shape her literary life.
- 2004 publication of Isak
Dinesens 'Drømmerne' by Lars Nilsson. Forlaget Systime, 2004, 310 sider.
- 2003 publication of Karen Blixens gæstebud - billeder fra Rungstedlund af Ebbe Mørk med Jens Lindhes fotografier. Politikens Forlag. 300 sider rigt illustr. i sort/hvid og farve.
- 2002 publication of Karen Blixen's Letters from Denmark: 1931-1962 in French.
- 2002 publication of Seven Gothic Talesin Danish in a special de luxe edition (495 Danish Kroner) with decoupages made by HM Margrethe II of Denmark.
- 2002 publication of Understanding Isak Dinesen by Susan C. Brantly. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002.
- 2001 publication of Omvejene til Pisa by Ivan Z. Sørensen and Ole Togeby. En fortolkning af Karen Blixens Vejene til Pisa, Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- 2001 publication of To Soar with Eagles by Eugene Haynes, Jr: an African-American musician's memoir of his friendship with Karen Blixen. 224 pgs:ill. Xlibris.
- 2001 publication of Karen Blixens Kunst/ The Art of Karen Blixen. Includes essays of academic interest by Mark Mussari, Charlotte Engberg, and Bente Scavenius, with an introduction by Marianne Stecher-Hansen.
- 2000 publication of Samtaler med Karen Blixen [Interviews with Karen Blixen]/ udgivet af Else Brundbjerg. 409 sider. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- 2000 publication of Billedets ekko : om Karen Blixens fortællingeraf Charolotte Engberg/ fotograf: Erwitt Elliott; 2000. 250 sider:ill. Copenhagen: Gyldendal.
- 1999-2000 Touring Exhibit (Currently in hiatus in North America.)
- 1999 publication of Siden hen: - om Karen Blixen by Bo Hakon Jørgensen: Odense : Odense Universitetsforlag, 323 s. - (Odense University Studies in Scandinavian Languages and Literatures, ISSN 0078-3331 ; 40). Summary in English, pp. 320-323. - Diss. Odense, 2000 ISBN 87-7838-492-3. A highly praised critical overview of Karen Blixen's oeuvre. In Danish.
- 1999 publication of Ariadne (in Danish) by Tone Selboe.
- 1998 publication in Danish of Blixikon by Liselotte Henriksen. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1999. 359 p., ill. (An A to Z guide to the Life and Works of Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen.) Contains some lovely, little known photographs of Karen Blixen. Sample.
- 1998 publication of Babette og det aristokratiske univers by Frantz Leander Hansen, Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzels Forlag. "Original and essential...exquisite and noble. Babette og det aristokratiske univers is simply one of the best all-round presentations of Karen Blixen´s work."--Søren Schou, Weekendavisen.
- 1998 publication of Africa's Song of Karen Blixen by Tove Hussein. A well-illustrated account which reviews the fate of Karen Blixen's African friends. Available in larger American libraries.
- 1998 publication of Drommen om Ngong by Lennart Hagerfors (in Danish, a novel: "Dreaming about Ngong"), Copenhagen:Gyldendal.
- 1998 edition of Longing for Darkness by Peter Beard and Kamante Gatura.
- 1998 edition of Out of Isak Dinesen : Karen Blixen's untold story by Linda Donelson.
- 1998 edition of Karen Blixen i Afrika (in Danish) by Linda Donelson.
- 1997 International Colloquium at Rungstedlund (Did you attend? Please tell us about your impressions!)
- 1997: Karen Blixen et l'art du récit. Edité par René Rasmussen. Odense University Press, Odense, Denmark.
- 1996 publication of Karen Blixen i Danmark, Breve 1931-1962 (Karen Blixen's letters in Danish) The University of Chicago Press (which published Letters from Africa) has no plans at present to bring out an English translation.
- 1995 release of the documentary film Karen Blixen - Storyteller directed by Christian Braad Thomsen.