Malala Yousafzai for the right to education. Based out of Birmingham, she founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit organisation, and in 2013 co-authored "I am Malala", an international best seller. In 2012, she was the recipient of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and the 2013 Sakharov Prize. In 2014, she was the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Kailash Satyarthi of India. Aged 17 at the time, this made her the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. In 2015, Yousafzai was a subject of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary "He Named Me Malala". The 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues of "Time" magazine
Crouch End Festival Chorus scale choral works by James McCarthy: "17 Days" (2012), which explores the emotional landscape of the Chilean mining accident of 2010, and "Malala" (2014), inspired by the story of Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai. Will Todd chose a setting of Dylan Thomas’s "Rage Against the Dying of the Light" for the second of four works commissioned to celebrate CEFC’s 30th Birthday in 2014. In 2015, CEFC gave the first performance of Roland Perrin's "Lansky: The Mob’s Money Man", a fusion of New York and Cuban jazz and traditional Jewish Klezmer music written for jazz singer, narrator, choir and jazz