Fahmida Azim

Fahmida Azim (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.

Early life and education
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. She was raised in Virginia, and graduated from VCU School of the Arts.

Recognition
Azim and Seema Yasmin's book Muslim Women Are Everything was awarded the 2021 International Book Award for Multicultural Non-Fiction.

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". She also won the 2022 Golden Kite Award for Best Illustrated Book for Older Readers, for her illustrations in Samira Surfs by Rukhsanna Guidroz.

Personal life
As of 2022, Azim lives in Seattle.