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Background
 
• Overview by Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
• Karen Blixen by Encyclopedia of World Biography
• Short overview by Enotes.com
  
• Chronology: Karen Blixen's Life by Dates *
• Books by Karen Blixen: Bibliography *
• Books, films, and other references about Karen Blixen *
• Course Description: The Fiction of Karen Blixen, Instructor Marianne T. Stecher Hansen, University of Washington, Seattle. Presents a thorough list of reference materials related to Karen Blixen.
• Karen Blixen Museum, Denmark: information selected by Karen Blixen's estate.
• Karen Blixen's Medical History: A New Look *

• Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen: A Storyteller by Else Cederborg
• Karen Blixen & Isak Dinesen by Christian Egesholm
• Isak Dinesen in America by Sara Stambaugh
• Karen Blixen's Coffee Years by Linda Rice Lorenzetti*
• Isak Dinesen: The Danish Scheherazade by Susan Brantly, Scandinavian Review, 2002

• Famous Mistakes: published errors about Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen*

• Emory University Postcolonial Studies: Karen Blixen by Leah Wolfson

• Denys Finch Hatton Life and Links*
• Out of Africa Movie Links*
• Out of Africa Movie Poems*

• The Kiss of the Baroness: an interview with Aage Henriksen by Ebbe Mørk*
• Régis Boyer speaks about Karen Blixen*
• Sentura Magasin: Karen Blixen by Jens Kruuse*
• Isak Dinesen: The Art of Fiction by Eugene Walter, The Paris Review, 1956

• Film and Karen Blixen
• Karen Blixen: Out of this World. A 2005 documentary film.*
• Karen Blixen: Out of this World: An interview with director Marcus Mandal.
  
Denmark's M&M Productions have announced that shooting will begin in 2005 on Karen Blixen's The Angelic Avengers, a film designed for an international audience. This will be a Jeff King adaptation of the story with Suzanne Bier as director.

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Literary

• Danish Literature Information Centre
• Quotes by Karen Blixen

• "The Blue Eyes:" fragment from "Peter and Rosa," Winter's Tales, by Isak Dinesen
  
• "The Blank Page," "The Roads of Life (The Stork)," "The Iguana."
• A quote from "The Monkey"
• Notes on "The Sailor-Boy's Tale" by eNotes

• Spark Notes on Out of Africa (partial only) by Amanda Zafian. These notes present one of many possible interpretations. Incorrect information about Karen Blixen's syphilis.
• Out of Africa list of Contents*
• Index to the book Out of Africa
• Commentary on Out of Africa at the New Internationalist, author anonymous, see "Classics."
  

• Seven Gothic Tales Summary by Linda Donelson*
• Babette's Feast*

• "Hannah Arendt on Karen Blixen" by Lynn R. Wilkinson
• The Danish queen adapts "The Sailor-boy's Tale" for marionette theater*
• "Perversions with Sugar Tongs": Dag Heede on Queer Theory and Karen Blixen*
• "Equitare, arcum tendere, veritatem dicere"*

• Europe, monthly literary review: Table of Contents of the 2003 published collection of French essays about Karen Blixen.*
• Colloquium: "Karen Blixen: Out of Denmark," 1997.*

• Isak Dinesen on Hans Christian Andersen: Introduction to Thumbelina and Other Fairy Tales (1962) [in English, toward the end of an assessment in Danish by Bernhard Glienke]
• Commentary on Karen Blixen and Hans Christian Andersen by Bernhard Glienke
• Research at the Karen Blixen Museum, Denmark
  
  
• Stephanie Branson: "Dinesen in three dimensions: A comparing of irony in two films of Dinesen's stories," Literature Film Quarterly,  2000.
• Commentary about Seven Gothic Tales

 
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Travel


• GPS coordinates: 1. Karen Blixen's house in Kenya: 1º 21.110' S and 36º 42.750' E  2. House in Denmark (Rungstedlund) :  55º 53.000' N and 12º 32.600' E [Courtesy of Stefan P.]

• The Karen Blixen Museum, Kenya
  
• The Karen Blixen Museum, Denmark.
• A Visit to Rungstedlund by Denise Hansen*
  
• A Visit to the Karen Blixen Museum, Denmark, by Arline Bleecker*
• Karen Blixen's Estate in Denmark by Jan M. Olsen 2.)Photo of Rungstedlund
• Personal photo of Rungstedlund
• Rungstedlund garden
• Museum description by Frommer's Denmark
• Literary Traveler: Rungstedlund article by Ann Wallace.
• Literary Locales
• More photos of Rungstedlund
• Photos of Rungstedlund at Copenhagenet
• The Birth Home of Karen Blixen: photo essay of Rungstedlund by Katrina
  
 
• The Karen Blixen Museum, Nairobi, a photographic essay by Pamela W. Coffield.*
• Photos of the grounds of the Karen Blixen Museum, Kenya, by John Krikke.*
• "Visiting author’s Africa revives area's long-ago era" by Dorothy Stephens
• A Visit to the Karen Blixen Museum, Nairobi, by Judith Morgan*
• Interior of the African house*
• Photo of Karen Blixen's desk in the Kenya museum
  
• Commentary about the Karen Blixen museum, Kenya
• Daltons in Africa: Commentary about The Karen Blixen Museum in Kenya
• Photos of the Karen Blixen Museum, Kenya, exterior:   1.)  2.)  3.)
• Rear of Africa house photo by zhiyong xiong
• Photo of the Kenya house by John Oswalt
• Kenya house with rainbow
• Ngong Hills photo from the rear of the house by Sue Matulaitis
 
• In Search of Karen Blixen's Kenya by Erroll Trzebinski; NY Times, 1986.
• Tourists to Denmark should be sure to see the beautiful paintings of Ulla Chemnitz, on exhibit in Rungsted Kro (the restaurant near the harbour) near the Karen Blixen Museum.
• http://www.blixencoffeegarden.com/
  
• Karen Blixen Coffee Garden restaurant complex in Kenya.*
• Kariaria House Bed & Breakfast, Karen, Kenya
 
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Biography
 
• Out of Africa's true story: Out of Isak Dinesen: Karen Blixen's untold story 1.) Book Description from Coulsong* 2.) Excerpt* 3.) Reviews* 4.) Table of Contents* 5.) January Magazine review 6.) Review by Helen Yglesias, Women's Review of Books*
• Scandinavian Press: Interview with Blixen biographer Linda Donelson*
 
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Syphilis
 
• Karen Blixen's Medical History: A New Look *
• Abstract: Neurosyphilis, or Chronic Heavy Metal Poisoning Karen Blixen's Lifelong Disease by K. Weismann.
 
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Special Resources
 
• Bibliography of works about Karen Blixen through 2006. [Search for "Karen Blixen" using the  Danish  search engine on the page.]
• "Isak Dinesen": A short quote from an interview in The Paris Review, 1956.
• Karen Blixen papers at Harvard (related to Parmenia Migel's biography)
• Else Brundbjerg on Denys Finch Hatton's letters to Karen Blixen
 
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Commentary
 
• Karen Blixen Literary Society Online
• Karen Blixen at Pica 10
• Join the Chat Group of the Karen Blixen Literary Society
• Poem and commentary by Mary Lynn Richardson
• "Karen Blixen: Another View of her Time in Africa" by Nutshell Creations
• Quotes from Kamante
  

• Commentary on the Nairobi suburb: "What if Karen wasn’t named after Karen Blixen" by Muthoni Thangwa, East African Standard, Wednesday May 17, 2006.
• Photographer Carl Van Vechten on Isak Dinesen
• 2007 Year-End Update on Karen Blixen - Isak Dinesen
• 2006 Year-End Update: Know Your Audience
  
• 2005 Year-End Update: A disappointing year and a 2005 Success Story: Lucifer's Child
• 2004 Year-End Update on Book Sales Related to Karen Blixen / Isak Dinesen
• 2003 year-end update on book sales related to Karen Blixen.*
• Sales of Out of Africa down in 2002.*
• Our dreams for Karen Blixen in the 21st Century.*
• Karen Blixen's Out of Africa by Anne Dvinge
• Personal commentary at Literary Moose
• A letter to Baroness Blixen by Dominic Odipo: [Get] "Out of Africa!"
 
• "The African God of Isak Dinesen" by Chris Woltermann
  

• Sara Stambaugh (1936-2002), author of The Witch and the Goddess in the Stories of Isak Dinesen: A Feminist Reading.*

 
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• Dinesen cabin gets a second chance by Dennis McCann
  
• Wilhelm Dinesen's Frydenlund: photo of the Wisconsin cabin.*
• Wilhelm Dinesen's Wisconsin cabin by Dennis McCann
• Dinesen Women: women in Wilhelm Dinesen's life.*
• Wilhelm Dinesen's Grandchildren: Karen Blixen's Chippewa cousin.*
• Wilhelm Dinesen in America.*
• Photos of Katholm, Wilhelm Dinesen's boyhood estate: available through Google at danskefilm.dk
  
• Scandinavian Press: Farah Aden's Daughters.*
• Blixen's grandfather in Algeria by Bjørn Bredal, Politiken, September 16, 2006*
• History of the Chippewa at Mole Lake, Wisconsin
  

Of Interest

 

• Photo of KB with her African household
• Photo of KB seated at table on safari
• A lovely photo of Karen Blixen in middle age and of the elderly Karen Blixen.*
• Photo of Karen Blixen and her dog in Kenya (circa 1921)
• Karen Blixen and her Ford V8 Cabriolet Deluxe*
• Karen Blixen and her Scottish deerhound*
• Photo of Karen Blixen as a teenager
  

 
• Orson Welles's The Immortal Story: analysis by Adrian Danks of the film based on Isak Dinesen's story.
 
• Lucifer's Child, a play about Karen Blixen, was performed at Idaho State University in 2003.
• 1991 review of Lucifer's Child, play by William Luce, with Julie Harris as Karen Blixen: reviewer Frank Rich.
• Out of Africa or Lucifer's Child, ballet by Flemming Flindt: music by the Danish composer Carl Nielsen: "Choreographer Flemming Flindt opens Isak Dinesen's Pandora's box for Ballet SJ Silicon Valley's 'Out of Africa'" by  Marianne Messina. [A good, descriptive article about the origin of the ballet. One error in biographical detail: Karen Blixen's relationship with her mother was warm and dependent--not the "coldly religious" relationship described. Ingeborg Dinesen was liberal-thinking, open-minded, and affectionate, and was the first Danish woman who ran for, and was elected to, a parish (county) council.]
  
  
• British composer Andre Previn's song, "The Giraffes Go to Hamburg"--based upon the anecdote related by Isak Dinesen in Out of Africa--was written for soprano Renée Fleming in 2000.
  
• The Music of James Wilson: "...his finest achievement is the two act opera Grinning at the Devil of 1985 to a text by Elsa Gress."
• The Bond, symphonic poem with stage action in four scenes based upon Isak Dinesen's story "The Ring" by John von Daler, Librettist, and Bo Holten, Composer.
• Tanne, a ballet choreographed by Warren Spears.
• Of Tanne: a performance by Joan Gale (Joan Gale, distinguished actress, is now retired).
 
• Karen Blixen's china tableware: Blue Flower by Royal Copenhagen
  
• Painting of Karen Blixen's house by Morten Grimnez
• Traces of Women: Portrait of Karen Blixen by Mami
• Portrait of Karen Blixen by Elbert Price
• Karen Blixen: "Two Photographs." A poem by Tabish Khair.
  
• A poem about Karen Blixen: "Blue Vigor" by Anne Michaels
  
• An asteroid named after Karen Blixen
• A yacht named after Karen Blixen
• A former UCLA library exhibit

• A History of the Muthaiga Country Club by Stephen Mills
• Kazuri Beads: a website of related interest to Karen Blixen's Kenya.
• An earlier Out of Africa, by F. G. Carnochan and H. C. Adamson, 1936. Review in Time Magazine, November 2, 1936.
• Books of related interest: The Diana Files: The Huntress-Traveller Through History by Fiona Capstick and The Other Side of Kilimanjaro by Erika Johnston (1971).
• Boot Bible: Vestige of superstition found on the old Finch Hatton property at Ewerby.
  
  
  
• Karen Blixen's relatives and their children listed 1.)  2.)
  
• Some of Karen Blixen's ancestors
 
• The Sandbjerg Estate (Bequeathed to the University of Aarhus by Karen Blixen's sister, Ellen Dahl.)
• Map to the Sandbjerg Estate
• Finch Hatton's (commercial safari camp), Kenya
 
• Horticulture: the Karen Blixen rose
• Large photo of the Karen Blixen rose
• Another photo of the Karen Blixen rose
  
 
• Karen Blixen Kenya Marathon
 
• Christmas in Denmark and Kenya: An Advent Calendar.*
• Cooking Danish: Aebleskiver (Poffertjes) recipe*
• Special trivia: photo of Bror and Eva Blixen*.
• '08 Fashion is Dinesen-inspired 
• Breathtaking Kenya needs tourists by Mary Ann Anderson
 
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*Copyright © 2008 by Coulsong                    Updated April 18, 2008

Comments or questions: GraceJames [all one word] at karenblixen.com.

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