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Karen Blixen (Karen Christenze Dinesen) was born on 17 April, 1885 in Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark, is a Danish writer (1885–1962). Discover Karen Blixen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

Popular As Karen Christenze Dinesen
Occupation Writer
Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 17 April 1885
Birthday 17 April
Birthplace Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark
Date of death 7 September, 1962
Died Place Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark
Nationality Denmark

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Karen Blixen Height, Weight & Measurements

At 77 years old, Karen Blixen height is 5' 6¼" (1.68 m) .

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Height 5' 6¼" (1.68 m)
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Who Is Karen Blixen's Husband?

Her husband is Bror von Blixen-Finecke (m. 1914-1925)

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Husband Bror von Blixen-Finecke (m. 1914-1925)
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Karen Blixen Net Worth

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Karen Blixen worth at the age of 77 years old? Karen Blixen’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from Denmark. We have estimated Karen Blixen's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1845

Her father, Wilhelm Dinesen (1845–1895), was a writer, army officer, and politician.

1856

Her mother, Ingeborg Westenholz (1856–1939), came from a wealthy Unitarian bourgeois merchant family of ship owners.

Karen Dinesen was the second oldest in a family of three sisters and two brothers.

Her younger brother, Thomas Dinesen, served in the First World War and earned the Victoria Cross.

Karen was known to her friends as "Tanne".

Dinesen's early years were strongly influenced by her father's relaxed manner and his love of the outdoor life and hunting.

He wrote throughout his life and his memoir, Boganis Jagtbreve (Letters from the Hunt) became a minor classic in Danish literature.

1864

He served in the 1864 war by Denmark against Prussia, and also joined the French army against Prussia.

He later wrote about the Paris Commune.

He was from a wealthy family of Jutland landowners closely connected to the monarchy, the established church and conservative politics.

He was elected as Member of Parliament.

1872

While in his mid-20s, her father lived among the Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin (August 1872 to December 1873), and fathered a daughter.

On returning to Denmark, he suffered from syphilis which resulted in bouts of deep depression.

He conceived a child out of wedlock with his maid Anna Rasmussen, and was devastated because he had promised his mother-in-law to remain faithful to his wife.

1885

Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke (born Dinesen; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English.

She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.

Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while in Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette's Feast.

Each has been adapted as films and each won Academy Awards.

She is also noted, particularly in Denmark, for her Seven Gothic Tales.

1895

He hanged himself on 28 March 1895 when Karen was nine years old.

Karen Dinesen's life at Rungstedlund changed significantly after her father's death.

From the age of 10 years, her life was dominated by her mother's Westenholz family.

Unlike her brothers, who attended school, she was educated at home by her maternal grandmother and by her aunt, Mary B. Westenholz.

They brought her up in the staunch Unitarian tradition.

Her Aunt Bess had significant influence on Dinesen.

They engaged in lively discussions and correspondence on women's rights and relationships between men and women.

During her early years, she spent part of her time at her mother's family home, the Mattrup seat farm near Horsens.

In later years she visited Folehavegård, an estate near Hørsholm that had belonged to her father's family.

Longing for the freedom she had enjoyed when her father was alive, she found some satisfaction in telling her younger sister Ellen hair-raising good-night stories, partly inspired by Danish folk tales and Icelandic sagas.

1898

In 1898, Dinesen and her two sisters spent a year in Switzerland, where she learned to speak French.

1902

In 1902, she attended Charlotte Sode's art school in Copenhagen before continuing her studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts under Viggo Johansen from 1903 to 1906.

In her mid-twenties, she also visited Paris, London and Rome on study trips.

While still young, Dinesen spent many of her holidays with her paternal cousin's family, the Blixen-Fineckes, in Skåne in the south of Sweden.

She fell in love with the dashing equestrian baron Hans, but he did not reciprocate.

1905

In 1905, these led to her Grjotgard Ålvesøn og Aud, in which her literary talent began to emerge.

Around this time, she also published fiction in Danish periodicals under the pseudonym Osceola, the name of her father's dog, which she had often walked in her father's company.

1942

Among her later stories are Winter's Tales (1942), Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958) and Ehrengard (1963).

The latter was adapted as a romantic comedy film Ehrengard: The Art of Seduction, directed by Bille August and in association with Netflix, which released it on streaming in late 2023.

Blixen was considered several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature, but did not receive it because judges were reportedly concerned about showing favoritism to Scandinavian writers, according to Danish reports.

Karen Dinesen was born in Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen.