Barbara Demick
Barbara Demick is the author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2010), Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (2012) and Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town (2020). She was bureau chief for the…
Barbara Demick is the author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2010), Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood (2012) and Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town (2020). She was bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing and Seoul, and previously reported from the Middle East and Balkans for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her work has won multiple awards, including the Samuel Johnson prize, the Overseas Press Club’s human rights reporting award, and she was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Demick grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Yale College. She lives in New York City.