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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]
| Fahmida Azim ফাহমিদা আজীম | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
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]
- (with Seema Yasmin) Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure (Harper Design, 2020) ISBN 978-0062947031
- (with Rukhsanna Guidroz) Samira Surfs (Kokila 2021) ISBN 978-1984816191
- (with Anthony Del Col and Josh Adams) I Escaped a Chinese Internment Camp (New Friday, Sept. 2023) ISBN 9781988247960[7][9]
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