![]() ![]() In 2010, Waris Dirie was appointed Peace Ambassador for the Year of Peace and Security by the African Union. It was also nominated for a Film Award in Gold in the Outstanding Feature Film category at the German Film Awards, and won the Audience Award in the Best European Film category at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. In January 2010, it won the Bavarian Film Awards in Munich in the Best Movie category. ![]() The movie has so far been released in 20 countries including France, Spain, Israel, Greece, Poland and Brazil. In 2009, a feature-length film based on Waris’ book Desert Flower was released, with the Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede playing her. She later released other successful books including Desert Dawn, Letter To My Mother, and Desert Children, the latter of which was launched in tandem with a European campaign against FGM. In 1998, Waris authored her first book, Desert Flower, an autobiography which went on to become an international bestseller. ![]()
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