by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780297870920
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«I Am Malala» is the autobiography of Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in paperback (276 pages, in English).
Malala Yousafzai grew up in the Swat Valley, where her father ran a school, and recounts the arrival of the Taliban and her defence of girls' right to education. She also tells of the attack she suffered at fifteen and her recovery to become a global symbol of activism for education and peace.
«I Am Malala» includes the subtitle «The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban» and won the Goodreads Choice Award for memoirs and autobiography in 2013.
A title for readers interested in biographies of activism, human rights and education, as well as the recent history of Pakistan.
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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. Yousafzai is a human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district, Swat, where the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen".
