Malala gained attention aged 11, when she started writing a diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban.

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Malala Yousafzai was just 11 when she was writing her diary, two years after the Taliban took over the Swat Valley, and ordered girls' schools to close.

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She used the pen-name Gul Makai when writing the diary.

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Malala Yousafzai was just 11 when she started writing a diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban militants who had taken control of the Swat Valley in 2007 and ordered girls' schools to close.

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"I've been writing down my thoughts in a diary for the last 10 years and I keep going back to the US Open and there was nothing there, " said Campbell.

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From the time he published his first story in 1833 till his death in 1870, Dickens was frantically busy, not only with his writing but also with a crammed social diary and taxing commitments to charities, causes and campaigns.

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