by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb · Tapa dura · ISBN 9789153439929
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«Jag är Malala» is the memoir by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb, published by Ica Bokförlag in hardcover (285 pages, in Swedish).
«Jag är Malala» tells the story of Malala Yousafzai, a girl from the Swat Valley in Pakistan who defied the Taliban and demanded girls' right to education. After surviving an assassination attempt in 2012, her real story and that of her family became a global symbol of the peaceful struggle for women's rights. The book was written with the collaboration of journalist Christina Lamb.
The book was originally published in English in 2012 as «I Am Malala»; this Swedish 2013 edition was translated by Johanna Svartström, Kjell Waltman and Lena Öhrström.
For readers interested in memoirs, social activism and human rights, as well as the recent history of Pakistan and the fight for girls' education.
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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".
