No late-night parties for Nobel winner Malala

By Washington Examiner

Published October 12, 2014 11:03am ET

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No late-night parties for Nobel winner Malala — Female supporters of Pakistan People's Party cut a cake to celebrate Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, who survived the Taliban's attack, at a ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014. Taliban attack survivor Malala became the youngest Nobel winner ever as she and Kailash Satyarthi of India won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for working to protect children from slavery, extremism and child labor at great risk to their own lives. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) | Anjum Naveed

LONDON (AP) — The co-author of Malala Yousafzai’s memoir says there were no late-night parties for the teenage Nobel Peace Prize winner after she was honored for her work supporting girls’ rights to education.

Instead, Christina Lamb says, Malala spent the night after she won the prestigious prize nursing a cold and watching Pakistani television with her parents at home in Birmingham in central England.

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