Malala Yousafzai: Youngest Noble Prize Winner

I think the title seems interesting for this article. You already know about Nobel Prize, which is highest award in honour and is given in the memory of Alfred Nobel who invented Dynamite. He became a rich man due to his invention and started amazing award which is called Nobel Prize and is given to people who have done an extraordinary works.

Ok, now come to the main topic. There are many winners of Nobel Prize in world history but I think this would be interesting to discuss about the most youngest winner of this prize. So lets have it.

You must have heard about Malala Yousafzai. She was born on 12 July 1997 in Swat in KPK province of Pakistan.  She is an Activist for Female Education especaily for the girls and women of poor countries like Pakistan, Afghanstan, India etc. where women are either not allowed to go for education or they have no facilitation to be educated.  Now she lives in Birmingham, England.

Malala is the youngest in noble prize winners because has won the title of being the Youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner only at the age of 17. This is a great honour for her because noble prize winners are very few in millions and even billions. Its also a proud for Pakistan of being having the Youngest Winner of noble prize.

 

At the time when her name was announced for the prize she was attending her Chemistry Class in her school at Birmingham. She was informed by one of her teachers in the school. I think if there was any other person of whom name was announced for such prize then that person would have left the class and gone to enjoy his happiness but Malala remained in the school until classes let out that afternoon. After school she expressed all her emotions that how she felt such an amazing news when her teacher came and told her about the story.

She said “I felt more powerful and more courageous because this award is not just a piece of metal or a medal you wear or an award you keep in your room. This is encouragement for me to go forward.”

 

Absolutely being a winner of such a huge prize one will feel as most powerful and courageous. Award was handled to her at December 10^th 2014 along with Satyarthi who is also an activist for the end of child slavery and exploitative child labor since 1980.

The young Malala is also a winner of Sakharov Prize, Simone de Beauvoir Prize, Honorary Canadian Citizenship, and most importantly being the first winner of Pakistans first National Youth Peace Prize.