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Know Malala Yousafzai - World's youngest ever Nobel laureate

Exactly two years and a day after Taliban gunmen shot her in the head for daring to speak up for the rights of a girl to get an education, Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan was awarded


[Raises hands with some of the escaped kidnapped school girls of government secondary school during a news conference in Abuja, Nigeria on July 14, 2014]

Malala won for what the Nobel Committee called her "heroic struggle" for girls' right to education. She is the youngest ever winner of the prize, the paper said.

Malala and India's Satyarthi were named the joint winners of the eight-million kronor ($1.1 million) prize by the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee - Norway's former prime minister Thorbjoern Jagland.

[Malala poses for pictures before an event launching her book, “I Am Malala” in London on October 20 , 2013]

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