The 18-year-old Pakistani teenager, Malala Yousafzai, who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, has now along with her family become millionaires in under four years due to sales of a book about her life and appearances on the global speaker circuit. The youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize, shot to international fame after emerging defiant from the assassination attempt on a school bus in Pakistan’s Swat valley in October 2012 to continue her fight for girls’ rights. She later co-wrote a book with journalist Christina Lamb about her experience called “I am Malala” which was published in October 2013.
The deal was worth about 2 million pounds, and the book sold at least 1.8 million copies around the world with an approximate profit of US$3 million. According to reports, a company set up to protect the rights to her life story had 2.2 million pounds in the bank by August 2015 and made a pre-tax profit of 1.1 million pounds. Malala, her father Ziauddin Yousafzai, and her mother Toor Pekai are joint shareholders of the company, Salarzai Ltd.
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