Awards & Winners

Malala Yousafzai

Date of Birth 12-July-1997
Place of Birth Mingora
(Khyber Pakhtunkhwa)
Nationality Pakistan
Also know as Gul Makai, ملاله یوسفزۍ
Profession Writer
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She is known for her activism for rights to education and for women, especially in the Swat Valley, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. In early 2009, at the age of 11–12, Yousafzai wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC detailing her life under Taliban occupation, their attempts to take control of the valley, and her views on promoting education for girls in the Swat Valley. The following summer, a The New York Times documentary by journalist Adam B. Ellick was filmed about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region, culminating in the Second Battle of Swat. Yousafzai rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by South African activist Desmond Tutu. In the afternoon of 9 October 2012, Malala boarded her school bus in the northwest Pakistani district of Swat. A gunman asked for Malala by name, then pointed a Colt 45 at her and fired three shots.

Awards by Malala Yousafzai

Check all the awards nominated and won by Malala Yousafzai.

2014


Nobel Peace Prize
(for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education)

2013


The US Glamour Award for Woman of the Year
(The Monster Talent, The Girls' Hero, The Fashion Wizard, The Gladiator, The Role Models with Christy Turlington Burns, The Role Models with Liya Kebede, The Chairman of Cool, The Game Changer, The Protector, The Advocate)

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Nobel Peace Prize