NOUN
- Danish writer who lived in Kenya for 19 years and is remembered for her writings about Africa (1885-1962)
How To Use Blixen In A Sentence
- Blixen's repeated attempts to establish a coffee plantation were foredoomed because neither the soil nor the altitude was right for such a venture.
- Olive Schreiner was not an aristocrat, and her perception of the Africa where she was born is a different perception than, for instance, the perception of someone like Karen Blixen, who, for all her remarkable empathy, brought her aristocratic assumptions to the continent and conceived herself as a benevolent goddess on a farm that existed because of the land-grabbing and punitive tax policies of the colonists. The Story of an African Farm
- Until 1942 there was no reliable cure for syphilis, too late for Karen Blixen.
- Until 1942 there was no reliable cure for syphilis, too late for Karen Blixen.