Malala Yousafzai
Author of I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
About the Author
Malala Yousafzai was born in the Swat Valley of Pakistan on July 12, 1997. In 2009, she wrote a diary for BBC using a pen name about the critical situation in Swat at that time. On October 8, 2012, she was attacked by the Taliban while returning home from school. I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood up show more for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban is her first book. She won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2015 she launched the #BooksNotBullets campaign on social media to pressure world leaders to invest in education rather than the military. Yousafzai asks low- and middle-income countries to commit a minimum of 20% of national budgets on education, rather than the current average of 15%. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Malala Yousafzai [By Russell Watkins/Department for International Development.]
Works by Malala Yousafzai
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World [Young Readers Edition] (2016) 2,386 copies
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban [Quick Reads Edition] (2016) 14 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Yousafzai, Malala
- Other names
- Makai, Gul
- Birthdate
- 1997-07-12
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Pakistan
- Country (for map)
- Pakistan
- Birthplace
- Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Places of residence
- Mingora, Pakistan
Birmingham, England, UK - Education
- Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford (BA|2020)
- Occupations
- activist
- Relationships
- Malik, Asser (husband)
- Organizations
- Malala Fund
- Awards and honors
- Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought (2013)
Nobel Prize (Peace, 2014) - Short biography
- https://malala.org/malalas-story
Members
Discussions
Biography Group Read, 4th Quarter: I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb, General Discussion in 2014 Category Challenge (December 2014)
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Statistics
- Works
- 12
- Members
- 10,064
- Popularity
- #2,359
- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
- 391
- ISBNs
- 206
- Languages
- 20
- Favorited
- 3