![]() ![]() ![]() This man had had a great influence, both intellectually and sentimentally in Blixen. ![]() Later, she replaced her husband in the management of the farm and then got divorced.ĭuring this recovery period she decides to retake her passion for painting and writingīut the worst happen in 1931 when Finch died in a bad accident. Soon after her come back, she met Denys Finch Hatton, an English military pilot who became her lover. Nevertheless, she didn’t stay much time and in 1916 she got back to Africa, where with the help of her family, she created a farm called “Karen Coffee Company”. During this recovery period she decides to retake her passion for painting and writing. Nevertheless, soon after she had to get back to her home town to get a treatment for syphilis. According to La Vanguardia, “ her integration in the continent was immediate and the identification with the native people was almost instant”. ![]() During 1914, the young writer born in 1885, coming from a wealthy family, got married with her cousin, the baron Bror Blixen in Mombasa and settled in Nairobi, where together with her husband, she acquired a property called Mbagathi. In this post we want to pay a tribute to this prodigious novelist who was nominated twice to the Nobel Prize Award. ![]()
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