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    Menchu, Rigoberta 1959-

    PERSONAL: Born in 1959, in Guatemala; daughter of Vincente (a human-rights activist) and Juana (a human-rights activist and healer) Menchu.

    Ethnicity: "Native American (Quiche)."


    ADDRESSES: Offıce—Vicente Menchu Foundation, P.O. Box 5274, Berkeley, CA 94705.


    CAREER: Human-rights activist and writer. Began campaigning for Indian rights as a teenager; founder, Guatemalan Opposition in Exile, National Committee for Reconciliation, 1987; coordinator, American Continent's 500 Years of Resistance Campaign against 500th anniversary of arrival of Columbus in Americas, 1992; member, U.N.

    International Indian Treaty Council; International Goodwill Ambassador for Culture and Peace, UNESCO, 1996.


    AWARDS, HONORS: Nobel Peace Prize, 1992; Freedom Award, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN, 2002.


    WRITINGS:

    (With Elizabeth Burgos-Debray) I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala, Verso (New York, NY), 1984.

    Crossing Borders: An Autobiog