Karen Dinesen, called Tania by her friends, was the the daughter of army officer Wilhelm Dinesen, and Ingeborg Westenholz, (and sister of Thomas Dinesen.) She was born in Rungsted, on the island of Zealand, in Denmark. Dinesen's short story writing was influenced by the Bible, the stories of the Arabian nights, Aesop's Fables, the works of Homer, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, her fellow countryman. Blixen wrote works both in Danish and in English but is best known for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and for her story, Babette's Feast, both of which were adapted into highly acclaimed motion pictures. Blixen described them saying about her storytelling, "…'Please, Memsahib, talk like rain,' so then I knew they had liked it, for rain was very precious to us there."īaroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Ap– September 7, 1962), née Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. She particularly loved to tell stories with rhyme because it was something novel to their culture.
Dinesen felt the native people-the Somali and the Masai tribes of Eastern Africa-with their rich tradition of oral storytelling, had an ear for her romantic and "old fashioned" style of writing. Blixen's memoirs of pioneering a coffee farm in Africa, where she had an affinity for all that was natural, brought her worldwide recognition as an authoress.
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