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`Out of Africa' spurs a safari to Blixen home
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KAREN, Kenya On a rainy Sunday afternoon, I rode with friends out of
Nairobi along Ngong Road to this suburb to visit the home of Out of
Africa author Isak Dinesen, now the Karen Blixen Museum. (Dinesen was
her maiden name, Isak her nom-de-plume, Blixen her married name).
The home where she lived from 1917 until leaving Africa in 1931
has only been open to the public since late February, a few weeks
before the movie version of "Out of Africa" won seven Academy Awards
including Best Pic...
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Scandinavian Studies
; Grethe F. Rostboll. Longslens vingeslag: Analyser af Karen Blixen's fortollinger: Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1996, pp. 303. The title of Grethe F. Rostboll's study of Karen Blixen's tales is taken from a passage in Nietzsche's The Death of Tragedy, which, translated from the Danish, reads something
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`Out of Africa' spurs a safari to Blixen home
Chicago Sun-Times
; KAREN, Kenya On a rainy Sunday afternoon, I rode with friends out of Nairobi along Ngong Road to this suburb to visit the home of Out of Africa author Isak Dinesen, now the Karen Blixen Museum. (Dinesen was her maiden name, Isak her nom-de-plume, Blixen her married name). The home where she lived
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Staying out of Africa
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Prince William's Out of Africa birthday bash last night and the disclosure that he is learning Swahili should have been a wonderful boost for tourism in Kenya this summer. However, Foreign Office warnings about the high risk of terrorism mean that anyone inspired to visit Karen Blixen's farm at the
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The Guillotine: Twentieth-Century Classics That Won't Last No 14: KARE N BLIXEN
The Independent - London
; It's a droll paradox of political correctness that, even in a column of this kind, which ventures to speculate on the gradual disappearance from our culture of artists once considered significant, one instinctively feels the need to balance the mix by including as many women as possible.
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Hans-Goran Ekman. Karen Blixens paradoxer. Om Sju romantiska berattelser, Den afrikanska farmen och Vintersagor.(Book Review)
Scandinavian Studies
; Uppsala: Gidlunds forlag, 2002. Pp. 203. Hans-Goran Ekman is a docent at Uppsala University who has written a number of books, the most noteworthy dealing with Lars Ahlin and August Strindberg. Ekman is therefore no stranger to challenging writers, and it was with great expectations that I read his
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Karen Blixen museum opens in Denmark
Chicago Sun-Times
; RUNGSTED, Denmark The birthplace of Karen Blixen - better known as Isak Dinesen, author of Out of Africa and other works - has opened as a museum. Queen Margrethe II officially opened the museum May 14 in Rungsted, an old fishing harbor that has turned into a fashionable residential area 12 miles
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Frantz Leander Hansen. The Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen: Destiny and the Denial of Fate.(Book Review)
Scandinavian Studies
; Frantz Leander Hansen. The Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen: Destiny and the Denial of Fate. Trans. Gaye Kynoch. Brighton: Sussex Academic P, 2003. Pp. i-ix + 165. Frantz Leander Hansen's book, The Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen, is enjoyable to read. Even though a number of the points
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Nordisk shoots doc on Blixen.(World News)(Karen Blixen being shot by Nordisk Film )(Brief Article)
Daily Variety
; AMSTERDAM -- Nordisk Film is shooting Karen Blixen: Out of This World, a doc about the Danish author of Out of Africa. The pic will include never-before-seen footage of Blixen's compound in Kenya, and interviews with family and friends. Among the tales that Blixen wrote under the pseudonym Isak
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'Out of Africa,' but back to Kenya: Film version of classic love story hits 20 years, and country is as compelling as ever
Chicago Sun-Times
; "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills Of course, this lyrical line opens Isak Dinesen's autobiographical Out of Africa, a novel first published in 1937 that is regarded as one of the greatest love stories of all time, one not so much about a love between a man and a woman, but,
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Eye-opening tour of Kenya's museums, BUSINESS TIMES
Business Times (Malaysia)
; Helena Fernz Business Times (Malaysia) 07-21-2000 What we will find at the Kenyan museum links on this site, however, is lots of information about museums and their precious "goods", so to speak. Any actual visitor to Kenyan museums will find it worth his or her while to take an "online tour" as
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