Mississauga’s Maitreyi Ramakrishnan moderates talk with Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai in Toronto

Mississauga’s Maitreyi Ramakrishnan moderates a discussion with Nobel laureate and author Malala Yousafzai in Toronto this week.

Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel laureate, best-selling author and award-winning film producer, is on a book tour for her memoir Finding My Way.

Born in Mingora, Pakistan, in 1997, Yousafzai was thrust into the spotlight after she was shot by a masked Taliban gunman in October 2012. Her father was a teacher and ran a girls’ school. Yousafzai had loved school and spoke out for a girl’s right to an education.

She recovered from the shooting and her family settled in the United Kingdom.

Her first book, co-authored with Christina Lamb, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, was published in 2013 and became a best seller.

She graduated from Oxford University in 2020 and has married. Her new book details her life in the spotlight and years struggling to find her place in an unfamiliar world.

Actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, who rose to fame for her role as Devi Vishwakumar in the Netflix teen comedy series Never Have I Ever, will moderate Yousafzai’s book tour stop in Toronto on Friday, Nov. 7.

Ramakrishnan grew up in Mississauga and attended Meadowvale Secondary School.

The book tour stop in Toronto is at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Exhibition Place, 190 Princes’ Blvd., Toronto. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets can be purchased in advance.

For more information about the book tour and to buy tickets, see the website here.

 

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