Barbara Demick

Barbara Demick is an American political journalist, who became known as the award-winning author and internationally.

Life

1993-1997 worked very descriptive writing, in understated interpretations Demick for the Philadelphia Inquirer in Eastern Europe / Balkans. With the photographer John Costello she created from 1994 to 1996 a series of articles about life in a certain street of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was won in the finals for the Pulitzer. In 1996 her first book, The Roses of Sarajevo ( Logavina Street).

From 1997 to 2001, she was stationed in the Middle East.

In 2001 she moved to the Los Angeles Times and was the Far East correspondent, first in Seoul, since 2007, she lives in Beijing. In 2006 she received the Dine Award for Human Rights Reporting of the Overseas Press Club and the Osborn Elliott Prize at the Asia Society.

In 2010 she published Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, for which she was awarded the Samuel Johnson Prize and the finals of the National Book Award and the " National Book Critics Circle Awards" came.

Works

• Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood. Andrews and McMeel, Kansas City 1996, ISBN 0-8362-1326-2. German: The roses of Sarajevo. Droemer, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-27587-0.