ABOUT THE BOOK
Karen Blixen at Home is a journey into the great writer's life and
daily living on the family estate Rungstedlund, north of
Copenhagen. Here she was born and raised and here she spent the
remaining 31 years of her life after the African intermission. This
became a turning point in her life and was also the inspiration and
background for her novel Out of Africa. She was never again to
visit the farm at Ngong Hills, but it was forever present in her
life. None the less she loved Rungstedlund so profoundly that she
invested her whole personality in creating a home here.
Today the house is not merely a museum,
but more like a living epilogue to Karen Blixen and also the home
of the Danish Academy of Letters. Through the magnificent floral
arrangements, created in her spirit, you still detect the
atmosphere that made this place so attractive to her many guests.
In her time, she gathered a great number of Danish and
international personalities around her table, among others writers
like Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley and John Steinbeck, the actor
John Gielgud, the photographer Cecil Beaton and the physicist and
Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr.
The fire is still lit in the fireplace
when there are guests, and the table in the dining-room can be laid
with the china and silver - and the crystal glasses that made the
trip to Africa and back again, and from which family and friends,
crowned heads and literary lions have drunk from for almost a
hundred years.
The book includes recipes from the
kitchen at Rungstedlund.
THE AUTHOR
Ebbe Mørk is a Danish journalist, editor, critic and author.
His influence has been considerable in Denmark and he ranges from
the satirical to the serious. Ebbe Mørk has published
several books on topics as ballet, theatre and fine cuisines.
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