Awards & Winners

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Date of Birth 13-November-1969
Place of Birth Mogadishu
(Somalia, Banaadir)
Nationality Netherlands, Somalia, United States of America
Also know as Ayaan Hirsi Magan, Ayaan Hirsi Magan Ali, Ayaan Hirsi Magan Isse Guleid Ali Wai’ays Muhammad Ali Umar Osman Mahamud, Ayaan Hirsi Magan Isse Guleid Ali Wai’ays Muhammad Ali Umar Osman Mahamud, Ayaan Hirsi Magan
Profession Politician, Writer, Author, Activist, Film Producer
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Somali-born American women's rights and atheist activist, writer and politician who is known for her views critical of female genital mutilation and Islam. She wrote the screenplay for Theo van Gogh's movie Submission, after which she and the director both received death threats, and the director was assassinated. The daughter of the Somali politician and opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse, she is a founder of the women's rights organisation the AHA Foundation. When she was eight, Hirsi Ali's family left Somalia for Saudi Arabia, then Ethiopia, and eventually settled in Kenya. She sought and obtained political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992, under circumstances that later became the centre of a political controversy. In 2003 she was elected a member of the House of Representatives, representing the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy. A political crisis surrounding the potential stripping of her Dutch citizenship led to her resignation from the parliament, and led indirectly to the fall of the second Balkenende cabinet in 2006.

Awards by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

2008


Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
Honored for : Infidel
(Due to security concerns because of the death threats against her, the award was not listed beforehand, but was a surprise announcement at the ceremony)