(Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi leads her National League for Democracy (NLD) party to the polls on Nov. 8 in Myanmar’s second general election since the end of full military rule in 2011.Here are some facts about the 75-year-old who rode to power after a 2015 landslide election win that established the Southeast Asian nation’s first civilian government in half a century. - The daughter of independence hero Aung San, who was assassinated when she was two years old, Suu Kyi spent much of her youth overseas. At Oxford University, she met British academic Michael Aris, who would become her husband. They had two sons and settled in Oxford. - In 1988, Suu Kyi returned to Yangon, then the capital, to care for her dying mother. There, she was swept up in student-led protests against the military, which had ruled since a 1962 coup. - An eloquent public speaker, Suu Kyi was a likely candidate to lead the movement but the protests were crushed, its leaders killed and jailed, and she was soon imprisoned in her lakeside family home, where she remained until 2010, despite brief releases from house arrest. - Suu Kyi made a decision to remain in Myanmar to lead a campaign for democracy. Although the military made it clear she could leave, she feared she would not be allowed to return. - She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991, which her elder son Alexander collected on her behalf. - In August 2011, Suu Kyi had her first meeting with then President Thein Sein, a former general and head of the quasi-civilian administration, marking the start of a pragmatic period of engagement with a government of ex-soldiers. - In 2015, she came to power on a platform of ending civil war, drumming up foreign investment, and reducing the army’s role in politics. Suu Kyi also promised Western allies that she would address the plight of the Rohingya Muslim people, forming an advisory commission headed by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.