‘I am Malala’ to get published this year

LONDON: Malala Yousafzai is going to tell her story "and the story of 61 million children who can't get education" in a book.

“I am Malala” will be published in Britain, the US and India this year after the Pakistani schoolgirl, the youngest person to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, struck a deal with two publishers.

According to British newspaper The Independent, Malala said "I hope this book will reach people around the world, so they realise how difficult it is for some children to get access to education."

"I want to tell my story, but it will also be the story of 61m children who can't get education. I want it to be part of the campaign to give every boy and girl the right to go to school. It is their basic right."

The memoir will tell the story of the attack in her own words, as well as her life growing up in the Swat Valley, the newspaper said.