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[21] [22] [166] Yousafzai shared the prize with Kailash Satyarthi, a children's rights activist from India. [167] She is the second Pakistani to receive a Nobel Prize after 1979 Physics laureate Abdus Salam. [168] After she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, there was praise, but also some disapproval of the decision.
Satyarthi is from India, the seventh person from his country to win a Nobel Prize and the second to win the Peace Prize after Mother Teresa, while Yousafzai is a Muslim from Pakistan, the second Nobel Prize winner from her country after Abdus Salam, the forty-seventh woman to win the Nobel Prize, and at the age of 17 years, the youngest winner ...
Malala Yousafzai (b. 1997) Pakistani peace activist. At the age of 17, Yousafzai is the youngest Nobel Prize recipient ever. [59] She is also the second Pakistani and first ethnic Pashtun to be awarded a Nobel Prize. [60] Malala Yousafzai: 'I'm a feminist and a Muslim' [61] 2023 Narges Mohammadi (b. 1972) Iranian human rights activist.
The youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize winner is currently celebrating some impressive test scores. Malala Yousafzai's GCSE scores—passing grades being more or less equivalent to a U.S. high school ...
As of 2024, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to 121 individuals. [5] 18 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2024, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French ...
Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest ...
Youngest person to receive a Nobel Prize: Malala Yousafzai; at the age of 17, received Nobel Peace Prize (2014). Oldest person to receive a Nobel Prize: John B. Goodenough; at the age of 97, received Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2019). Only person to receive more than one unshared Nobel Prize: Linus Pauling; received the prize twice.
United Talent Agency (UTA) announced Thursday that it will represent Malala Yousafzai and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai. “When I started my fight for girls at 11 years old, working with media ...