by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller · FisicalBook · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422681557
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«Flor del desierto» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie with Cathleen Miller, published by FisicalBook in hardcover (238 pages, in Spanish).
Waris Dirie evokes her nomadic childhood in the Somali desert, her flight from an arranged marriage, the journey that takes her to London, and her discovery as an international model. She also recounts the trauma of the female genital mutilation she suffered and her later work as a UN ambassador defending the rights of women and children in Africa.
The original English title is 'Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad', and this Spanish edition is from 1999. In 2002 it received the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis.
For readers of biographies and memoirs with an interest in real stories of personal overcoming and in defending women's rights in Africa.
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).
