by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller · EMBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788496748934
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«Flor del desierto» is the memoir written by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published by Embolsillo in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
Waris Dirie, with Cathleen Miller, recounts in these memoirs her nomadic childhood in the Somali desert, the pain and trauma of the female genital mutilation she suffered, and her rise in the fashion world to become a recognized model and United Nations ambassador for the rights of women and children in Africa.
Work originally published as «Desert Flower» in 1998. In 2002 it received the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis.
For readers of memoirs and biographies with an interest in feminism and African 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).
