7 Things You Should Know About Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Pakistani girls’ rights activist, Malala
Yousafzai was today named joint winner of 2014 Nobel peace award

Malala Yousafzai is officially an icon after she
was named winner » of the 2014 Nobel
Peace Prize today, October 10.
The 17-year-old shares the award, worth $1.1
million, with Indian child rights campaigner,
Kailash Satyarthi .
Malala has come a long way from being a
young Pakistani schoolgirl fighting for equal
educational rights in country.
Here are 7 things you should know about her:
1. She was born on July 12, 1997 in
Pakistan
2. Her name “Malala” means "grief-stricken"
3. She was shot by the Taliban on October
9, 2012 for her outspokenness in
campaigning for equal educational rights
for young girls
4. She is currently schooling at the
Edgbaston High School in Birmingham
5. She has been described by Deutsche
Welle in January 2013 as "the most
famous teenager in the world."
6. She visited Nigeria in July 2014 to
speak with President Goodluck
Jonathan on the fate of the over 200
girls abducted by Boko Haram in
Chibok, Borno state. »
7. She is the youngest ever recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize