From Nothing to Envy, her seminal book on North Korea, Eat the Buddha, which chronicled life in Tibet, to Besieged, her account of wartime Bosnia, Barbara Demick’s rigorous reporting and empathetic portraits of life in some of the world’s most closed or politically febrile places have earned her the Samuel Johnson Prize and been shortlisted for Orwell and Pulitzer prizes.

A former foreign correspondent who covered Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia, The Economist wrote that “few writers have done more to illuminate isolated parts of the world than Barbara Demick”.

In her first Aotearoa New Zealand appearance, she discusses her lauded career and new book Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, about twin girls separated by China’s one-child policy, with Anna Fifield.

Supported by Platinum Patrons Joséphine and Ross Green.