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Malala Yousafzai (Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی, Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ, pronunciation: born July 12, 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
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Awarded when she was 17, she is the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, and the second Pakistani and the first Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize.
In her native homeland, Swat, the Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school.
Malala's advocacy has grown into an international movement. According to former Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become Pakistan's "most prominent citizen."
Childhood
Malala Yousafzai was born on July 12, 1997, to a Yusufzai Pashtun family in Swat.
She is the daughter of Ziauddin Yousafzai and Toor Pekai Yousafzai. She has two younger brothers, Khushal and Atal.
Yousafzai was educated mostly by her father - a poet, school owner, and an educational activist. He ran a chain of private schools known as the Khushal