Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Daniel O'Gorman (Oxford Brookes University)

Ed. by Pavan Kumar Malreddy, J W Goethe University of Frankfurt
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

First circulation or publication Oct 2013

Places

Pakistan (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Non-Fiction
- Memoir

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Malala Yousafzai is a world-famous youth icon. The daughter of an outspoken Pakistani women’s education activist, and herself a teenage blogger on the topic from 2009 onwards, she became the subject of intense hatred among members of the Taliban in the Swat Valley region of Pakistan’s Afghan border. In 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head by a young assassin acting on Taliban’s behalf. The attack was widely reported around the world, and – upon a speedy transferal to the UK for specialist medical treatment – she made an astonishing recovery, proceeding to use her newfound celebrity to continue her campaign for women’s educational rights, and becoming the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, at the age of 17.

Yousafzai’s first book, I Am Malala: The Story

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Citation: O'Gorman, Daniel. "I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 13 April 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35621, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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