YOUNGEST NOBEL LAUREATE
"We realise the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."
- Malala
"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
- Malala
At the age 17, Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel Prize winner. She captured the attention of the world when she was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan for going to school.
Malala is now 23 years old, born in Mingora, Pakistan. In her place girls going to school were banned by Pakistani Taliban. Her advocacy against this inhuman act has grown Into an international movement. According to former Prime Minister of Pakistan S K Abbasi, "Malala has become the most prominent citizen of Pakistan." Yousafzai attended Edgbaston High School in England from 2013 to 2017 and graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, where she was an undergraduate student of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 2020. In 2017 she was awarded honorary Canadian citizenship and became the youngest person to address the House of Commons of Canada.
Other than the Nobel prize she has won Philadelphia Liberty Medal, Order of the Smile, Glamour Award for The Girls' Hero, International Children's Peace Prize, Shorty Award For Teen Hero, National Malala Peace Prize, Simone de Beauvoir Prize etc. She took part in the movies like He Named Me Malala, A Girl from Paradise and another two movies.
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