Teenaged activist for girls’ education in Pakistan Malala Yousafzai will write a book consisting of her memoirs “I am Malala”, 

Malala’s life story will be published later this year, in a deal reported to be worth around £2m.The book will be published in the autumn and will tell the story of 15-year Pakistan’s girls’ education activist, who was shot by Taliban gunmen after she became an advocate for woman's education in the Swat Valley. She now attends a school in Birmingham.Yousafzai said, "I hope this book will reach people around the world, so they could realise how difficult it is for some children to get access to education.”

She added, "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 book, which will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in the UK and Commonwealth and by Little, Brown in the rest of the world, is the latest stage of Yousafzai's public life which almost ended in tragedy.