Who is Malala Yousafzai?Her Biography, Life History

The autobiography of Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for supporting girls' education, will be released on Tuesday, a day before the one-year anniversary of the Taliban attack that almost killed her.

A biography of the Pakistani schoolgirl who was shot by the Taliban for supporting girls’ education will be released on Tuesday, a day before the one-year anniversary of the Taliban attack aboard a school bus that almost killed her.

Malala Yousafzai’s story is detailed in "I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban", co-written with British journalist Christina Lamb, and tells of the day two Taliban gunmen boarded her school bus on October 9, 2012, and shot her in the head.

"My friends say he fired three shots, one after another," she writes. "… By the time we got to the hospital my long hair and Moniba's (a friend’s) lap were full of blood."

Malala now lives in Birmingham, where she received specialist medical treatment after the shooting. The book also tells of her homesickness and her struggle to adjust to life in England.

She has struggled to make friends at her new English school, she reveals, and spends hours talking to her old friends in Swat using Skype.

The book describes her shock when she first saw scantily clad girls going out at night in Birmingham, and her amazement at seeing men and women openly socialising in coffee shops.

But she says there is much to like about life in England -- "people follow the rules, they respect policemen and everything happens on time" she writes. "I see women having jobs we couldn't imagine in Swat."

Malala has been invited to a Buckingham Palace reception to meet Queen Elizabeth II, officials said Sunday, at an October 18 event hosted by the queen and Prince Philip to promote education in Commonwealth countries.

She has also been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize, which will be awarded on Friday.

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