Barbara Demick won the Samuel Johnson Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award with Nothing to Envy, her seminal book on North Korea. Logavina Street, her account of the war in Sarajevo, grew out of a series that was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize.

Demick’s Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town was named one of the best books of the year by The New York Times.

Her books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Demick is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. She lives in New York.

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