The witchy author of "Out of Africa" believed she would win the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature, but it instead went to young Albert Camus, whose life did a nosedive shortly thereafter.
Always loved Karen Blixen. Lately, I found a Danish movie directed by Bille August about one of her last works: Ehrengard, 1963. And there is a lot of Kierkegaard in that comedy. I guess she was expecting something in exchange for Kierkegaard's exhaustive reading and devotion that went beyond. With Carnival, The Dreamers, The Pearls and Babette's Feast. Anyhow, if the Nobel Prize ignored her because she was Danish, and they wanted to be open to other writers, like Camus or Pasternak, guess what? Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf were also ignored!
Always loved Karen Blixen. Lately, I found a Danish movie directed by Bille August about one of her last works: Ehrengard, 1963. And there is a lot of Kierkegaard in that comedy. I guess she was expecting something in exchange for Kierkegaard's exhaustive reading and devotion that went beyond. With Carnival, The Dreamers, The Pearls and Babette's Feast. Anyhow, if the Nobel Prize ignored her because she was Danish, and they wanted to be open to other writers, like Camus or Pasternak, guess what? Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf were also ignored!