Rungstedlund Award
# Rungstedlund Award

The Rungstedlund Award is an award of honor, founded by the Rungstedlund Foundation (Rungstedlundfonden) in 1991. The DKK 25,000 prize is annually handed to a person who has made a notable contribution in an area which interested Karen Blixen. The prize is handed at the birthday of Karen Blixen on 17 April. The award comes from a gift from Hørsholm Municipality at the opening of the Karen Blixen Museum on 14 May 1991.

Rungstedlund was the country house in Rungsted near Copenhagen which was owned by Karen Blixen from 1939-58. Rungstedlund is now the site of the Karen Blixen Museum.

## Recipients of the Rungstedlund Award

| Year | Award winner | Comment |
| - | - | - |
| 2020 | Puk Damsgaard | |
| 2019 | Lars von Trier | |
| 2018 | Minik Rosing | |
| 2017 | Niels Barfoed | |
| 2016 | Jette Baagøe | |
| 2015 | Tom Buk-Swienty | |
| 2014 | Marianne Juhl and Marianne Wirenfeldt Asmussen | |
| 2013 | Karen-Lise Mynster | |
| 2012 | Gabriel Axel | |
| 2011 | Otto B. Lindhardt | |
| 2010 | Johannes Riis | |
| 2009 | Klaus Rifbjerg | |
| 2008 | Aage V. Jensen | |
| 2007 | Judith Thurman | |
| 2006 | Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen | |
| 2005 | Suzanne Brøgger | |
| 2003 | Aage Henriksen | 25 000 DKK |
| 2002 | Lin Hua | From China, translator |
| 2001 | Inger Christensen | Speech by Torben Brostrøm in Information on 18 April 2001 |
| 2000 | Liselotte Henriksen | |
| 1999 | Tove Hussein | |
| 1998 | Thorkild Bjørnvig | |
| 1997 | Bodil Kjer | |
| 1996 | Arne Schiøtz | |
| 1995 | Palle Nielsen | |
| 1994 | Clara Selborn | |
| 1993 | Meryl Streep | USA, for her role as Karen Blixen in the film Out of Africa based on Den afrikanske farm (The African Farm) |
| 1992 | Jørgen Gustava Brandt | |
| 1991 | Knud W. Jensen | |
