by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller · Heyne · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783453212619
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«Wüstenblume» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie, co-written with Cathleen Miller, published by Heyne in paperback (280 pages, in German).
Waris Dirie grows up in a nomadic family in the Somali desert and suffers genital mutilation as a child. She flees a forced marriage to Mogadishu and travels to London as a domestic servant for an ambassador. Discovered by a photographer, she becomes an international model and UN ambassador against female genital mutilation.
«Wüstenblume» was originally published as 'Desert Flower' in 1998; this German edition is from 2002. It won the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis in the Sachbuch category in 2002.
For readers of biographies and memoirs, and for those seeking testimonies on 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).
