Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai ("Malālah Yūsafzay": ; ; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country. Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
Malala Yousafzai but her powerful message remains undiluted." 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". According to "Publishers Weekly", in 2017 the book had sold almost 2 million copies, and there were 750,000 copies of the children's edition in print. Yousafzai was the subject of the 2015 documentary "He Named Me Malala", which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. In 2017, a Hindi biopic film "Gul Makai" was announced, with Reem Sameer Shaikh portraying her. Yousafzai authored a