by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller · Ullstein Verlag, Berlin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783548365916
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«Wüstenblume» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published by Ullstein in paperback (280 pages, in German).
Autobiography of Waris Dirie, born into a nomadic family in Somalia, which recounts her childhood in the desert, the genital mutilation she suffered at age five, and her flight from an arranged marriage. After arriving in London, she succeeds as a model and later becomes a UN ambassador against female genital mutilation.
Work originally published as «Desert Flower» (1998); German translation by Bernhard Jendricke. Corine Internationaler Buchpreis 2002 in the Sachbuch category.
For readers of biographies and memoirs, with an interest in women's rights and testimonies about Somali reality.
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).
