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Who is the author of 'We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World'?
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Answer: Option C — Malala Yousafzai
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"We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World" is a book by Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani education activist, published in 2019.
About the book:
In the first part, Malala describes her own experience of being displaced: first within Pakistan, when her family had to leave the Swat Valley during military operations against the Taliban in 2009, and later when she had to live in England after being attacked.
In the second part, she shares the true stories of girls she met in refugee camps and communities around the world, such as Zaynab from Yemen, Muzon from Syria, Najla from Iraq and others, who fled war and persecution.
The book highlights the courage of refugee girls and the importance of education for them.
About Malala Yousafzai:
- She was born on 12 July 1997 in Mingora, Swat Valley, Pakistan.
- As a schoolgirl, she wrote a blog for BBC Urdu (under the pen name "Gul Makai") about life under the Taliban, who had banned girls' education.
On 9 October 2012, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman while on her school bus. She survived after treatment in Birmingham, England.
In 2014, at the age of 17, she became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate, sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with India's Kailash Satyarthi.
The United Nations declared 12 July, her birthday, as "Malala Day".
She graduated from the University of Oxford in 2020.
Her other books:
- "I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban" (2013, with Christina Lamb).
- "Malala's Magic Pencil" (2017), a children's picture book.
- She founded the Malala Fund (2013) to support girls' education.
Other young activists' books:
- Greta Thunberg: "No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference" (2019) and "Our House Is on Fire" (with her family).
- Nadia Murad: "The Last Girl" (2017); Nobel Peace Prize 2018 for her work against sexual violence by ISIS.
Why not the other options?
- ✗Greta Thunberg is a climate activist who wrote "No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference".
- ✗Nadia Murad wrote "The Last Girl".
- ✗Michelle Obama wrote "Becoming".
Quick tip
Remember: "We Are Displaced" (2019) and "I Am Malala" (2013) = Malala Yousafzai (youngest Nobel laureate, 2014, with Kailash Satyarthi); "The Last Girl" = Nadia Murad.
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This question tests your understanding of Books & Authors, a key topic in the General Knowledge section. The detailed solution above uses a step-by-step approach to show the reasoning, and where available, a shortcut that helps you solve similar questions in under 90 seconds during the actual exam.
This topic covers famous books and their authors, including ancient Indian texts, works of the freedom struggle, classic and modern literature, autobiographies of famous people, and recently published books by well-known personalities. Questions usually name a book and ask for its author, or the other way round. Ancient and historical books, such as Arthashastra (Kautilya), Indica (Megasthenes) and Gitanjali (Rabindranath Tagore), are tested most often. Autobiographies are another favourite, so learn titles such as 'My Experiments with Truth' (Mahatma Gandhi) and 'Wings of Fire' (A. P. J. Abdul Kalam). Practise the books and authors questions below, written in the style of the general awareness sections of exams such as SSC, banking, railways, CUET GAT, MAH CET and CLAT. Each question comes with a detailed explanation that adds related facts, so every question helps you revise more than one point.