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Suu Kyi was well known, even while under house arrest she received awards. In 1991, still under house arrest, Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but the award had to be received by her oldest son, Alexander. He accepted the prize for his mother and for all the people in Burma.
Following the release in 1995, she continued to challenge the junta ( miltary), .
every weekend she address thousand of followers who congregated in front of the gate of her home. That was the only forum for free of speech in the country. But the government cracked down on these gatherings and arrested thousands of people. Suu Kyi returns back to house arrest for a few months.
Suu Kyi wrote about her lifetime and published six books. The first book was called The Voice of Hope, like Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, and the Dalai.
Lama. Suu Kyi has become an international symbol of struggle against repression and brutality. In the book Suu Kyi emerges as a human being, a mother of two sons as well as an inspirational human rights advocate and all around moral compass. She talks about when she was a soft spoken scholar living in England, and being the daughter of a Burmese military hero catapulted to prominence as the spokesperson for her country's beleaguered democracy movement.
Her second book Letters from Burma talks about being a human rights activist and being the leader of Burma's National League for Democracy. Suu Kyi also talks about how it felt to be under house arrest for six years. She also speaks on how she won the 1991 Noble Peace Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
Her third book The Lady talks about her biography. The book also tells how she was influenced of her father, whom was assassinated in1947 in the struggle for Burmese independence, when she was only two years old. The book tells in contrast how the military treated her. The forth book Standing Up for Democracy in Burma a biography which traces the life of the Burmese political activist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
