Fahmida Azim ফাহমিদা আজীম | |
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Born | 1994 (age 29–30) Bangladesh |
Nationality | Bangladeshi-American |
Area(s) | Artist |
Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary, 2022 Golden Kite Award, 2022 |
fahmida-azim |
Fahmida Azim ( Bengali: ফাহমিদা আজীম; born 1994) is a Bangladeshi-American illustrator and author. Fahmida won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for her portrayal of an escape from a Xinjiang internment camp. [1]
Azim was born in 1994 to a Bengali Muslim family in Bangladesh, and moved to the United States with her parents when she was a child. [2] She was raised in Virginia, and graduated from VCU School of the Arts. [3]
Azim and Seema Yasmin's book Muslim Women Are Everything was awarded the 2021 International Book Award for Multicultural Non-Fiction. [4]
Azim was a co-winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary, for her illustrations of the 2021 comics journalism work "How I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp". [5] [6] [2] [7] She also won the 2022 Golden Kite Award for Best Illustrated Book for Older Readers, for her illustrations in Samira Surfs by Rukhsanna Guidroz. [8]
As of 2022, Azim lives in Seattle. [6]
Fahmida Azim ফাহমিদা আজীম | |
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Born | 1994 (age 29–30) Bangladesh |
Nationality | Bangladeshi-American |
Area(s) | Artist |
Awards |
Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary, 2022 Golden Kite Award, 2022 |
fahmida-azim |
Fahmida Azim ( Bengali: ফাহমিদা আজীম; born 1994) is a Bangladeshi-American illustrator and author. Fahmida won the Pulitzer Prize in 2022 for her portrayal of an escape from a Xinjiang internment camp. [1]
Azim was born in 1994 to a Bengali Muslim family in Bangladesh, and moved to the United States with her parents when she was a child. [2] She was raised in Virginia, and graduated from VCU School of the Arts. [3]
Azim and Seema Yasmin's book Muslim Women Are Everything was awarded the 2021 International Book Award for Multicultural Non-Fiction. [4]
Azim was a co-winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary, for her illustrations of the 2021 comics journalism work "How I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp". [5] [6] [2] [7] She also won the 2022 Golden Kite Award for Best Illustrated Book for Older Readers, for her illustrations in Samira Surfs by Rukhsanna Guidroz. [8]
As of 2022, Azim lives in Seattle. [6]