6 Youngest Nobel Prize Winners

1.Malala Yousafzai

Age: 17

Date of Birth: July 12^th, 1997

Award: Nobel Peace Prize

Completing our list of the 6 Youngest Nobel Prize Winners, it’s the inspirational Malala Yousafzai. Malala was born in north-west Pakistan in 1997. At the age of 11, she began to write a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu service. She spoke about her fears that the school she loved attending may be attacked, having witnessed a rise in military activity in her district. The blog rose in popularity, and Malala was revealed as its author. Shortly after, her family began to receive death threats and on October 9^th, 2012 a masked gunman from the Taliban boarded her school bus and shot her in the head and neck. She was close to death and Malala remained in a critical condition. She was flown to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK, for specialist treatment. Her family travelled to the UK and Malala was eventually discharged in January, 2013. She now lives in Birmingham where she works to promote the right of all children to an education.

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