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Out of Africa
work by Dinesen
Also known as: āDen afrikanse farmā
Out of Africa, memoir by Danish writer Isak Dinesen, published in English in 1937 and translated the same year by the author into Danish as Den afrikanske farm. It is an autobiographical account of the authorās life from 1914 to 1931 after her marriage to Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, when she managed a coffee plantation in Kenya. In lyrical prose she recounts her profound love of the land, her affection for the fading culture of colonial Africa, her romance with an English hunter, and the eventual failure of the farm. Further insight into the work is provided by the posthumous collection Letters from Africa, 1914ā1931 (1981).
This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.
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