Ayaan Hirsi Ali is remembered in public life for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Ayaan Hirsi Ali as Dutch-American political activist and author.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born at Mogadishu in 1969. Her recorded nationality is the Kingdom of the Netherlands. She was educated at Leiden University.
Modern careers are conducted in public and at speed, with reputations formed and revised far faster than the work itself changes.
She worked as politician, activist and screenwriter.
Among her principal works are Submission and Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now. Political reputations are settled slowly, and rarely by the people who made them.
Her work was formally recognised with the Richard Dawkins Award, Simone de Beauvoir Prize and Dutchman of the Year.
Working from the Kingdom of the Netherlands shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have her, the language the work first appeared in.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Notable work: Submission
- Notable work: Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now
- Educated at Leiden University
- Worked as politician, activist and screenwriter
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