What(什么)? Who’s 17 and just became the youngest person to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize? Yeah, this could be you, but it isn’t. Malala Yousafzai gained world recognition when she was attacked by Taliban extremists in Pakistan for her work advocating girls’ education in her home area, Swat Valley in northwest Pakistan. How(怎么)? At age 11, Malala was writing a blog for the BBC under a pseudonym talking about her life under Taliban control and her opinion on the right’s of women and access to education. She was shot in the head almost exactly 2 years ago on her way to school, and has since been living in Birmingham near the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where she was taken to recover from the attack. When(时候)? Malala received news of this new honour while attending Chemistry class at the all-girls’ Edgbaston High School in Birmingham on Friday. She, alongside 60-year-old Indian children’s rights’ activist Kailash Satyarthi, beat Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, the Pope and Vladimir Putin to the prize of approx. $1.1million awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee chaired by former prime minister Thorbjoern Jagland. The prize will officially be handed out, alongside other Nobel awards in Economics, Literature, Medicine, Chemistry and Physics on December 10, to mark the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel’s death in 1896. This article was written by Mercy Angela Nantongo. Send an email to [email protected] to get in touch. Photo Credit: Marjorie Wang