 Her subjects have included female genital mutilation in Kenya ("The Day I Will Never Forget"), women standing up to rapists in India ("Pink Saris"), and the story of "Salma", an Indian Muslim woman who smuggled poetry out to the world while locked up by her family for decades.Born Kimona Sally-Anne Longinotto- Landseer to an Italian father and a Welsh mother February 8, 1950; her father was a photographer who later went bankrupt.At the age of 10 she was sent to a draconian all-girls boarding school, where she found it hard to make friends due to the mistress forbidding anyone to talk to her for a term after she became lost during a school trip.