Originally Posted by
Alka
Wow -- I'm impressed! ^ Not the usual Hollywood/sports celebrity that we see in this forum.
I had to Google the name to find out she was a Nobel Peace Prize winner with an incredible background. I suspect there's an interesting story behind the reason you could recognize her.
Yes, incredible is one word for it. Maybe she should have won a Pulitzer for fiction.
She wrote about her brother dying of malnutrition, but apparently he didn't.
"For example, in one of the most moving scenes in the book, Rigoberta describes how she watched her brother Nicolas die of malnutrition. But the New York Times found Nicolas alive and well enough to be running a relatively prosperous homestead in a Guatemalan village."
http://www.boundless.org/1999/depart.../a0000074.html