by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick · Alianza Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420693316
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«Malala. Mi historia» is the autobiography of Malala Yousafzai with Patricia McCormick, published by Alianza Editorial in hardcover (272 pages, in Spanish).
Malala was ten years old when the Taliban took over the Swat Valley and banned girls' education. Her defense of the right to study led to an attack in October 2012 that nearly cost her life. Her recovery turned her into an international symbol of peaceful protest.
Hardcover edition from the Libros Singulares (LS) collection, translated from English by Julia Fernández. Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014.
Aimed at young readers and adults interested in biographies of social activists, stories of overcoming adversity and defense of human rights.
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".
