Barbara Demick
Barbara Demick is an American political journalist who became internationally known as an award-winning book author.
Life
From 1993 to 1997 Demick, a very descriptive and cautious writer, worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer in Eastern Europe / the Balkans. With the photographer John Costello , she created a series of articles from 1994 to 1996 about life in a certain street in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War, which won the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was in the final for the Pulitzer. In 1996 her first book The Roses of Sarajevo ( Logavina Street ) was published.
From 1997 to 2001 she was stationed in the Middle East.
In 2001 she moved to the Los Angeles Times and became a Far East correspondent, initially in Seoul, and since 2007 she has lived in Beijing. In 2006 she received the Dine Award for Human Rights Reporting of the Overseas Press Club and the Osborn Elliott Prize of the Asia Society .
In 2010 she published Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea ( German: In the Land of Whispers: Stories from Everyday Life in North Korea) , for which she received the Samuel Johnson Prize and made it into the finals of the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle Awards ”came.
Works
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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 .
- In the land of whispers: stories from everyday life in North Korea. Droemer, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-78081-7 (originally published in German under the title Die Kinogänger von Chongjin: A North Korean Love Story. Droemer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-27438-5 ).
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Demick, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |