Fahmida Azim
| Fahmida Azim ফাহমিদা আজীম | |
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| Born | 1994 (age 31–32) |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi-American |
| Area | Artist |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary, 2022 Golden Kite Award, 2022 |
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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]
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]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]
Recognition
[edit | edit source]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]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]As of 2022, Azim lives in Seattle.[6]
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]- (with Seema Yasmin) Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure (Harper Design, 2020) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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- (with Anthony Del Col and Josh Adams) I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp (New Friday, Sept. 2023) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).[7][9]
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External links
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- 1994 births
- American comics artists
- American female comics artists
- American graphic novelists
- American children's book illustrators
- American women children's book illustrators
- American women journalists of Asian descent
- American writers of Bangladeshi descent
- Bangladeshi emigrants to the United States
- Living people
- Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners
- Virginia Commonwealth University alumni