by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller · Ullstein · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783426619483
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«Wüstenblume» is the autobiography of Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller, published by Ullstein in paperback (347 pages, in German).
Somali model Waris Dirie recounts her nomadic childhood in the desert, the genital mutilation she suffered at age five, and her escape from a forced marriage. Her modelling career took her to London and the major catwalks, and today she fights as a special UN ambassador against female genital mutilation.
Wüstenblume, originally published as «Desert Flower» in 1998, was awarded the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis in 2002.
For readers interested in biographies, memoirs and testimonies, and in issues of women's rights and African social 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).
