No late-night party for Malala after Nobel win

LONDON: The co-author of Malala Yousafzai’s memoir said that there were no late-night parties for the teenage Nobel peace prize winner after she was honoured for her work supporting girls’ rights to education.
Instead, Christina Lamb said, Malala spent the night after she won the prestigious prize nursing a cold and watching Pakistani television with her parents at home in Birmingham in central England.“I had caught a cold and wasn’t feeling so good,” she told ‘The Sunday Times’.
Lamb said in the Sunday Times that 17-year-old Malala is worried that she will fall behind in her school work and exam preparation because she will have to travel to Norway to collect the prize and deliver a speech.
Messages poured in from all over the world for the Pakistani girl who had to be airlifted to Birmingham two years ago for a life-saving brain surgery after the Taliban attack. “I am feeling really honoured and happy. People’s love really helped me recover from the shooting and be strong, so I want to do all I can to contribute to society,” she added.
Malala was aware that she might win the Nobel prize and had arranged for a teacher to come into her Chemistry class after 10am on Friday once the award had been announced. “We were learning about electrolysis of copper. My teacher said she would come if there was news. It was 10.15 and she hadn’t come, so I thought, ‘Oh well, I didn’t win. I am really young and I am just at the beginning of my work’,” she said. The teacher came a few minutes later and gave her the news. “My teachers were more excited than me. Their smiles were bigger than mine. I just went to my Physics lesson,” she added.
Lamb said Malala allowed herself one indulgence. She answered her phone saying “Hello, this is the Nobel laureate,” before bursting into giggles.