Description
Twenty years ago, while still a young student herself, international lawyer and World Bank judge Mahnaz Malik wrote Mo’s Star, a children’s book inspired by the power of hope, imagination and education.
Created to raise funds for children in need in Pakistan, the book went on to support access to schooling for underprivileged children and has now been republished by Oxford University Press in English, Urdu and Arabic.
In this special event, Malik reflects on the remarkable journey of the book, the importance of aspiration and storytelling, and the enduring belief that every child deserves the opportunity to dream, learn and shape their future.
About the Poet
Alexandra Pringle, Hon FRSL
Alexandra joined Bloomsbury in 1999 and was Editor-in-Chief for 20 years. Her list of Nobel, Booker, Women’s Prize-winning and bestselling authors includes Richard Ford, Esther Freud, Elizabeth Gilbert, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Khaled Hosseini, Jhumpa Lahiri, Madeline Miller, Ann Patchett, George Saunders, Kamila Shamsie, Ahdaf Soueif and Patti Smith. She is on the Advisory Board of the Bradford Literature Festival, a Patron of Index on Censorship, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Fiction at Manchester Metropolitan Festival. She is writing a memoir, Caravan, to be published in the UK and US in 2027.
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