Barbara Demick

Barbara Demick is a former foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times who served as bureau chief in Beijing and in Seoul. Her book, Nothing to Envy:Ordinary Lives in North Korea, won the U.K.'s top non-fiction prize, the Samuel Johnson award, in 2010 and was a finalist for both the National Book Awards and a National Book Critics Circle Awards. Demick's earlier book, Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood was republished in 2012 by Random House in the U.S.and Granta in the U.K.