AdvertisementFor Malala, Now 20, Birthdays Are Best Spent With Girls Who Dream BigJuly 30, 2017Jane ArraffacebookEmailMalala cuts a birthday cake in the shape of a book at a restaurant in Dohuk. The youngest Nobel laureate turned 20 on July 12 in Dohuk, five years after she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in Pakistan. (NPR)