Karen Blixen was a Danish author who is known for her works in Danish and English. She wrote under several pen names too, like Isak Dinesen, Osceola and Pierre Andrézel. Her best works are ‘Out of Africa’ and a story from one of her books, ‘Babette’s Feast’, and both became Academy Award winning movies. Though born in an affluent household, she had a troubled family life as a child. She developed an early interest in writing and married a baron, before moving to Africa, in hopes of starting a coffee farm there. But the venture proved to be more difficult than she had imagined. She struggled to run her coffee farm and fell in love with an Englishman when her philandering husband divorced her. Suffering heavy financial losses in Africa, she returned to Denmark and took up writing in earnest. She published several notable works thereafter and attained worldwide fame. She won several prestigious awards and even has two museums named after her. She suffered various illnesses throughout her life and passed away from complications of the same.