by Judith Thurman · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782232100000
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«Karen Blixen» is the biography of Karen Blixen by Judith Thurman, published by Seghers in paperback in 1986 (501 pages, in French).
It traces the life of Danish writer Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa: her childhood in Denmark, marriage and journey to Kenya, the coffee plantation, her passion for Denys Finch Hatton, financial ruin, return to Denmark, illness, and international recognition of her work.
Winner of the 1983 National Book Award and the 1984 Giovanni Comisso Prize. Original title: «Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller» (1982); French translation by Pascal Raciquot-Loubet.
For readers interested in biographies of writers, in the figure of Karen Blixen, and in 20th-century Kenya.
Judith Thurman is an American writer, biographer, and critic. She is the recipient of the 1983 National Book Award for Nonfiction for her biography Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller. Her book Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette was a finalist for the 1999 nonfiction National Book Award. In 2016, she received the medal of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters.
