Malala Yousafzai, born in 1997 in Mingora, in Pakistan's Swat Valley, is an activist for girls' education. She was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 for speaking out, recovered in the United Kingdom, and in 2014 became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Her memoir I Am Malala (2013), written with Christina Lamb, was followed by the picture book Malala's Magic Pencil, the young-reader book We Are Displaced and, in 2025, the memoir Finding My Way. She co-founded the Malala Fund.
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Malala Yousafzai, born in 1997 in Mingora, in Pakistan's Swat Valley, is an activist for girls' education. She was shot by a Taliban gunman in 2012 for speaking out, recovered in the United Kingdom, and in 2014 became the youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Her memoir I Am Malala (2013), written with Christina Lamb, was followed by the picture book Malala's Magic Pencil, the young-reader book We Are Displaced and, in 2025, the memoir Finding My Way. She co-founded the Malala Fund.
