Blixen
Americannoun
noun
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For this week’s episode of Working, host June Thomas interviews Danish actor Connie Nielsen on her latest role as the famed author Karen Blixen.
From Slate • May 7, 2023
Danish film director Lars von Trier receives the Rungstedlund Prize 2019 during an event at the Karen Blixen Museum in Rungsted, Denmark April 9, 2019.
From Reuters • Sep. 1, 2022
After getting wind of the talented Bjørnvig, Blixen summons him to her elegant family manor, Rungstedlund, under the guise of asking him to write her memoir.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2022
His next-door neighbour was Karen Blixen, the Danish author whose account of her life in Kenya was turned into the acclaimed Hollywood film Out of Africa.
From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2020
Flora’s father never walked through the hallways of the Blixen Arms.
From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo
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