Bangladeshi-origin Fahmida Azim wins Pulitzer Prize

Bangladeshi-origin illustrator and storyteller Fahmida Azim has won the Pulitzer Prize.

She has won the coveted prize as part of a team for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary for their work on Insider.

Fahmida is originally from Bangladesh, and now lives and creates in Seattle, Washington, reads her website.

Other than Fahmida, the winning team includes Anthony Del Col, Josh Adams and Walt Hickey of Insider in New York, according to The Pulitzer Prizes website.

The team won the prize “For using graphic reportage and the comics medium to tell a powerful yet intimate story of the Chinese oppression of the Uyghurs, making the issue accessible to a wider public”, according to the Pulitzer website.

The team’s report, titled "How I escaped a Chinese internment camp", was published on December 28, 2021, on Insider.

Fahima’s work centres on themes of identity, culture, and autonomy.

She and her art have been seen in The New York Times, NPR, Glamour, Scientific American, The Intercept, Vice, and more.

Fahmida has illustrated a number of books including her own stereotype-shattering project “Muslim Women Are Everything”, published on HarperDesign in 2020.