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Malala Yousafzai

Author · born July 12, 1997

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Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani female education activist, and producer of film and television. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, receiving the Peace Prize in 2014 at age 17, and is the second Pakistani and the only Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize.

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  1. ~16Received the Sakharov Prize2013
  2. ~16Received the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights2013
  3. 15Named Time 100April 1, 2013
  4. ~17Received the Nobel Peace Prize2014
  5. ~19Received the Order of the Smile2016
  6. ~24Named BBC 100 Women2021

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