Quote by: Karen Blixen

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?


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Author Bio


  • NameKaren Blixen
  • DescriptionDanish writer
  • AliasesKaren von Blixen-Finecke; Karen Christenze Dinesen; Isak Dinesen; Tania Blixen; Osceola; Pierre Andrézel; Karen Christence von Blixen-Finecke; Peter Lawless
  • BornApril 17, 1885
  • DiedSeptember 7, 1962
  • CountryDenmark
  • ProfessionWriter; Autobiographer
  • WorksOut Of Africa; Babette's Feast
  • AwardsDanish Critics Prize For Literature; Tagea Brandt Rejselegat