The Most Famous
WRITERS from Yemen
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Yemeni Writers of all time. This list of famous Yemeni Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Nujood Ali (1998 - )
With an HPI of 27.30, Nujood Ali is the most famous Yemeni Writer. Her biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Nujood Ali (Arabic: نجود علي, born 1998) is a central figure in Yemen's movement against forced marriage and child marriage. At the age of ten, she obtained a divorce, breaking with the tribal tradition. In November 2008, the U.S. Women's magazine Glamour designated Nujood Ali as Woman of the Year, and associated her lawyer Shada Nasser to the same tribute. Ali's courage was praised by prominent women, including Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice. Ali's lawyer Shada Nasser, born in 1964, is a feminist and specialist in human rights, whose involvement in Ali's case received much acclaim. Ali has also written a book together with French journalist Delphine Minoui called: I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as writers born between 1998 and 1998. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living writers include Nujood Ali.
