Meet Malala Yousafzai(Youngest Nobel Prize Winner): Biography, Age, Education, Nationality, And Mor

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Awarded when she was 17, she is the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate, and the second Pakistani and the first Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize.

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is the daughter of Ziauddin and Tor Pekai Yousafzai and has two younger brothers.

Full name: Malala Yousafzai

Date of birth: 12 July 1997

Age: 26

Nationality: Pakistani

Place of birth: Mingora, Pakistan

Parents:  Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor Pekai Yousafzai

Education: Edgbaston High School,  Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford,  Durham University,

Occupation: Writer, Novelist

Spouse:  Asser Malik (m. 2021)

Net worth: Update soon

Siblings: 2 younger brothers

Social media: [email protected]Malala 

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Malala Yousafzai’s Awards

• 2011: International Children’s Peace Prize (nominee)
• 2011: National Youth Peace Prize
• January 2012: Anne Frank Award for Moral Courage
• October 2012: Sitara-e-Shujaat, Pakistan’s second-highest civilian bravery award
• November 2012: Foreign Policy magazine top 100 global thinker
• December 2012: Time magazine Person of the Year shortlist for 2012
• November 2012: Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice
• December 2012: Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action
• January 2013: Top Name in Annual Survey of Global English in 2012
• January 2013: Simone de Beauvoir Prize
• March 2013: Memminger Freiheitspreis 1525 (conferred on 7 December 2013 in Oxford)
• March 2013: Doughty Street Advocacy award of Index on Censorship
• March 2013: Fred and Anne Jarvis Award of the UK National Union of Teachers
• April 2013: Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, Global Trailblazer
• April 2013: One of Time‘s “100 Most Influential People in the World”
• May 2013: Premi Internacional Catalunya Award of Catalonia, May 2013
• June 2013: Annual Award for Development of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)
• 2013: Clinton Global Citizen Awards from Clinton Foundation
• September 2013: Harvard Foundation’s Peter Gomes Humanitarian Award from Harvard University
• 2014: Honorary Doctor of Civil Law, University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• 2014: 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Kailash Satyarthi
• 2014: Philadelphia Liberty Medal
• 2014: Asia Game Changer Award
• 2014: One of Time Magazine “The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014”
• 2014: Honorary Canadian citizenship
• 2019: For their first match of March 2019, the women of the United States women’s national soccer team each wore a jersey with the name of a woman they were honoring on the back; Carli Lloyd chose the name of Yousafzai.
• 2022: Elected World’s Children’s Prize Decade Child Rights Hero, amongst previous recipients of the World’s Children’s Prize.

At a very young age, Malala developed a thirst for knowledge. For years her father, a passionate education advocate himself, ran a learning institution in the city, and school was a big part of Malala’s family. She later wrote that her father told her stories about how she would toddle into classes even before she could talk and acted as if she were the teacher.

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In 2007, when Malala was ten years old, the situation in the Swat Valley rapidly changed for her family and community. The Taliban began to control the Swat Valley and quickly became the dominant socio-political force throughout much of northwestern Pakistan. Girls were banned from attending school, and cultural activities like dancing and watching television were prohibited. Suicide attacks were widespread, and the group made its opposition to a proper education for girls a cornerstone of its terror campaign. By the end of 2008, the Taliban had destroyed some 400 schools.

Determined to go to school and with a firm belief in her right to an education, Malala stood up to the Taliban. Alongside her father, Malala quickly became a critic of their tactics. “How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?” she once said on Pakistani TV.

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