by Judith Thurman · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253041108
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«Karen Blixen» is the biography of the Danish writer of the same name by Judith Thurman, in a 828-page paperback, published by Le Livre de poche.
The biography follows Karen Blixen, the Danish writer popularized by the movie Out of Africa, from her childhood in Denmark to her literary consecration: marriage and the journey to Kenya before the Great War, a tragic passion, the ruin of the coffee plantation, the return home and the advance of the disease.
French edition of 1987 of the biography originally published in 1982 as Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, winner of the National Book Award (1983) and the Giovanni Comisso Prize (1984).
For readers of literary biographies and those who want to learn about the career of the author of Out of Africa.
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.
