by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226105691
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«Fleur du désert» is the autobiography by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published by Albin Michel in paperback (328 pages, in French).
Waris Dirie recounts her nomadic childhood in the Somali desert and her flight from a forced marriage at thirteen. She arrives clandestinely in London, works as a maid until a photographer discovers her and turns her into an international model. She denounces the female genital mutilation she suffered and her fight as a UN ambassador.
Published in 1998. Full title: «Fleur du désert : du désert de Somalie au monde des top-models, l'extraordinaire combat d'une femme hors du commun».
For readers of memoirs and social testimonies, with an interest in women's rights and in denouncing female genital mutilation.
Waris Dirie is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist in the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM). From 1997 to 2003, she was a UN special ambassador against FGM. In 2002 she founded her own organization in Vienna, the Desert Flower Foundation. She has won numerous awards recognizing her work on eradicating FGM, including the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2007).
