Malala Yousafzai

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Malala Yousafzai

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La ricordiamo anche per questa frase che ha detto durante il suo famoso discorso a New York davanti ai potenti della terra il giorno del suo sedicesimo compleanno.

Malala nasce il 12 luglio del 1997 in un villaggio del Pakistan. Ama andare a scuola, ma purtroppo all’età di dieci anni nel suo villaggio arrivano i talebani, guerrieri armati, che non vogliono che le donne vadano a scuola. Malala, contraria a questa decisione, a undici anni inizia a scrivere un blog in cui dice che le donne devono avere gli stessi diritti degli uomini. I talebani però non sono d’accordo e un giorno salgono sul pullman su cui Malala sta tornando a casa e le sparano alla testa. La ragazza si cura in Pakistan e poi viene guarita in un ospedale in Gran Bretagna. Vince il Premio Nobel per la pace a soli diciassette anni. Ha studiato all’Università di Oxford e oggi è un’attivista e una blogger, continuando la sua lotta per i diritti delle donne.

In her personal life, she suffered bouts of deep depression. She took her own life in 1941, at the age of 59, after her house was destroyed in The Blitz (WW2 bombing of London).

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) is recognized as one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century.

Born into a wealthy English household in 1882, author Virginia Woolf was raised by free-thinking parents. She began writing as a young girl and, encouraged by her father, began writing professionally in 1900. Perhaps best known as the author of Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters, and biographies. She and her husband, Leonard Woolf, bought a used printing press and established their own publishing house, Hogarth Press, going on to publish some of their own work as well as that of Sigmund Freud, Katharine Mansfield, and T.S. Eliot. Throughout her career, Woolf spoke regularly at colleges and universities and by her mid-forties, she had established herself as an intellectual, an innovative and influential writer, and a pioneering feminist.