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10 Interesting Facts About Malala

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10 Interesting Facts about Malala

10. Malala Yousafzai shot in the head by Taliban while on the school bus when she was 15 years old.


9. She was the subject of Oscar-shortlisted 2015 American documentary "He Named Me Malala" which is directed by Davis Guggenheim.


10 Interesting Facts about Malala

8. She wrote a blog for BBC under a false name, explaining what life was like under Taliban control when she was 11 and 12 years old.

7. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues of Time magazine featured Yousafzai as one of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World".

6. She addressed the United Nations on her 16th birthday about "the right of education of every child" on July 12 2013. The UN dubbed the event "Malala Day". It was her first public speech since the attack, leading the first ever Youth Takeover of the UN, with an audience of over 500 young education advocates from around the world.

10 Interesting Facts about Malala

5. Malala has received over 40 and more honours or awards for her brave and incredible activities.


4. Yousafzai's memoir I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban, co-written with British journalist Christina Lamb, was published in October 2013 by Little, Brown and Company in the US and by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in the UK. A reviewer for The Guardian called the book "fearless"


3. In May 2014, Malala was granted an honorary doctorate by the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.


2. A children's edition of the memoir was published in 2014 under the title I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World. The audio book edition, narrated by Neela Vaswani, won the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Children's Album.

10 Interesting Facts about Malala

1. Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner, At 17 Year Old in 2014 for braveness in fighting for children and women's right to education.



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