by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller · Ullstein-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Zweigniederlassung de · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783548359120
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«Wüstenblume» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie, co-written with Cathleen Miller, published by Ullstein in paperback (280 pages, in German).
Waris Dirie recounts her nomadic childhood in the Somali desert, the genital mutilation she suffered at age five, and her flight to Mogadishu to avoid a forced marriage. In London, a photographer discovers her and she becomes a model; later she is a UN ambassador against female genital mutilation.
1999 edition of the original work «Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad», with translation by Bernhard Jendricke and others. Winner of the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis.
For readers of autobiographies and memoirs, with an interest in Africa, feminism, and women's rights.
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).
