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Fahmida Azim, a storyteller, and painter from Bangladesh has been chosen to receive the 2022 Pulitzer Prize. She currently works for Insider, an American online publication. With the other members of her winning team Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams, and Insider Walt Hickey, Fahmida gets rewarded for her illustrated story titled “How I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp” in New York. Identity, culture, and individuality are major topics in her writing. Numerous worldwide publications have featured her artwork, including NPR, Glamour, Scientific American, The Intercept, Vice, and The New York Times.
She has created illustrations for many books, including her well-known work, “Muslim Women Are Everything.” The award citation stated that they were chosen for the honor because they used visual reporting and the comic medium to portray a potent yet personal tale of the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, making the topic understandable to a larger audience.
Key Takeaways
- Fahmida Azim was an illustrator raised in the U.S. but was born in Bangladesh
- She won the Pulitzer Award as her major creative writing was centred around identity, culture, and individuality.
- She has created illustrations for many books, including her well-known work, “Muslim Women Are Everything.”
About Pulitzer Prize
- The Pulitzer Prize is granted for accomplishments in literature, music composition, online journalism, magazines, and newspapers.
- The terms of Joseph Pulitzer’s will that were drafted in 1917 led to the establishment of this award.
- Columbia University administers this award.
- There are 21 categories in which these awards are granted each year. Each winner in the 20 categories receives a certificate and $ 15,000.00. A gold medal is awarded to the Public Service Category winner.
About Fahmida Azim
- Fahmida Azim was raised in America after leaving her native Bangladesh.
- Themes of identity, culture, and autonomy are central to her writing.
- Numerous worldwide periodicals have featured her writings, including NPR, Glamour, Scientific American, The Intercept, Vice, and The New York Times.
- She has also authored and drawn several books, including the groundbreaking work “Muslim Women Are Everything”
- Aside from her work, Fahmida enjoys cooking, seeing actual people lead extraordinary lives, and imagining people living beautiful everyday lives.
- She is one of four journalists, including Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams, and Walt Hickey, who work for the New York-based publication Insider and were chosen for their reporting on the Chinese repression of Uyghurs.
Future Objectives for Fahmida Azim's Website
On her website, Fahmida claimed that she enjoys drawing human forms. She claims that she intends to depict average real-life individuals. She received the Golden Snake Award earlier this year for her performance in the movie “Samira Surfs”. Rukhsanna Gidroz is the author of this book, which Penguin Random Place released. The movie is an account of Samira, and about an 11-year-old Rohingya refugee living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, who enjoys surfing for relaxation and happiness.
More on Fahmida
Fahmida is the second Bangladeshi to win the Pulitzer Prize, according to a report in The Dhaka Tribune. The first was Mohammad Ponir Hossain, a member of the Reuters team who received the award for feature photography in 2018 for his photographs of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
Fahmida claimed that she loves to draw people, and she claims that she wants to show regular people leading amazing lives. She received the Golden Kite award earlier this year for her performance in “Samira Surfs.” Rukhsanna Guidroz is the author of this book, which Penguin Random House released. The novel’s protagonist is Samira, an 11-year-old Rohingya refugee living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, who finds solace and delight in surfing.
- Illustrations by Fahmida with the titles Preventing Student Suicide, Muslim Sorrow and Identity Following Christchurch, and Fasting for Ramadan are among her other published works.
- Each of her illustrations has a unique aesthetic and a few shared traits that mark them as having been personally created by her.
- It is encouraging to learn that an illustrator from the Indian subcontinent, together with her team, received the Pulitzer prize.
