Barbara Demick
Barbara Demick is an American journalist. She was the Beijing bureau chief of the
Biography
Demick grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She attended Yale University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in economic history.[5][6]
Demick was a correspondent for
In 2001, Demick moved to the Los Angeles Times and became the newspaper's first bureau chief in Korea.[9] Demick reported extensively on human rights in North Korea, interviewing large numbers of refugees in China and South Korea. She focused on economic and social changes inside North Korea and on the situation of North Korean women sold into marriages in China. She wrote an extensive series of articles about life inside the North Korean city of Chongjin.[10] In 2005, Demick was a co-winner of the American Academy of Diplomacy's Arthur Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting & Analysis on Foreign Affairs.[7] In 2006, her reports about North Korea won the Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for Human Rights Reporting and the Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism.[11] That same year, Demick was also named print journalist of the year by the Los Angeles Press Club.
In 2010, she won the
Her first book, Logavina Street, was republished in an updated edition in April 2012 by Spiegel & Grau, a division of Random House.[18] Granta published the book in the U.K. under the title, Besieged: Life Under Fire on a Sarajevo Street. [19]
Demick was a visiting professor at Princeton University in 2006-2007 teaching Coverage of Repressive Regimes through the Ferris Fellowship at the Council of the Humanities.[20] She moved to Beijing for the Los Angeles Times in 2007. She is also an occasional contributor to The New Yorker.
Awards and nominations
- 2012 Shorenstein Award for Asia coverage Stanford University
- 2012 International Human Rights Book Award for German-edition of Nothing to Envy.
- 2011 Finalist, National Book Critics Circle award for non-fiction.
- 2011 Finalist, National Book Award for non-fiction
- 2010: Awarded, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
- 2006: Awarded, Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for Human Rights Reporting
- 2006: Awarded, Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism
- 2006: Awarded, Los Angeles Press Club Print Journalist of the Year
- 2005: Awarded, American Academy of Diplomacy's Arthur Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting & Analysis on Foreign Affairs
- 1994: Awarded, George Polk Awards, The Philadelphia Inquirer
- 1994: Awarded, Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, The Philadelphia Inquirer
- 1994: Nominated, Pulitzer Prize, The Philadelphia Inquirer
References
- ^ Times, Los Angeles. "Barbara Demick". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Danner, Mark. Bosnia: The Great Betrayal. New York Review of Books. March 26, 1998. [1]
- ^ "Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick - PenguinRandomHouse.com".
- ^ "'Eat the Buddha' Reports From the 'World Capital of Self-Immolations'". The New York Times. July 15, 2020.
- ^ Staff. "Barbara Demick Named Seoul Bureau Chief", Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2001. Accessed September 21, 2015. "A native of Ridgewood, N.J., Demick earned a bachelor's degree in economic history from Yale University and completed the Bagehot Fellowship in economic and business journalism at Columbia University."
- ^ About Barbara Demick Archived August 15, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, Nothing to Envy. Accessed September 21, 2015. "Demick grew up in Ridgewood, N.J. She is currently the Los Angeles Times’ bureau chief in Beijing."
- ^ ISBN 978-0-385-52390-5.
- ^ Matloff, Judith. "Mothers at War." Columbia Journalism Review. Aug 19, 2004.[2]
- ^ "Los Angeles Times Names Barbara Demick Seoul Bureau Chief", Business Wire, Dec 10, 2001.[3]
- ^ Reporter Gets Rare Glimpse at North Korea, National Public Radio, July 3, 2005. [4]
- ^ "Asia Society Announces 2006 Winners of the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism". Asia Society.
- ^ "Journalist Barbara Demick wins non-fiction prize with tale of life in North Korea". London Evening Standard. 2010-07-02. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
- ^ "Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea – 2010 National Book Award Nonfiction Finalist, The National Book Foundation". www.nationalbook.org.
- ^ a b "Nothing to Envy". nothingtoenvy.net. Mosaic Films. 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-01-11. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
- ^ "Interview with Mosaic Films: defectors' lives to be told through an animated feature". New Focus International. 2012-11-21. Archived from the original on 2018-01-03. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
- ^ "Mosaic Films launch their new project: Nothing to Envy – the animation". London Korean Links. 2012-10-02. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
- ^ "Nothing to envy - pilot 2015". Vimeo. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
- ISBN 978-0812982763.
- ^ Besieged on Amazon.co.uk. ASIN 1847084117.
- ^ Princeton, Council of the Humanities, fellows[permanent dead link]
External links
- Spiegel & Grau [5]
- Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary lives in North Korea, on Amazon.com
- Website for Nothing to Envy
- Excerpt of Nothing to Envy in The Paris Review. Fall 2009
- Excerpt of Nothing to Envy in The New Yorker. Nov. 2, 2009
- Video: Barbara Demick discusses Nothing to Envy at the Asia Society, New York, Jan. 7, 2010