• Tuesday, November 10th, 2020
• Discussion 21:00, Close 22:00
• Free Admission; Conducted in English

Just as she did with North Korea in Nothing to Envy, award-winning journalist Barbara Demick’s latest book explores one of the most hidden corners of the world, a Tibetan town perched eleven thousand feet above sea level. Through the lives of its inhabitants, from a former Princess to an upwardly mobile entrepreneur to a young nomad turned monk, Demick reveals what it is really like to be a Tibetan in the twenty-first century. Joining her in conversation is International Editor, Channel 4 News, Lindsey Hilsum.

Barbara Demick is a journalist and author of three books. Most recently Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, as well as Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea and Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighbourhood.

She was bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing and Seoul, and previously reported from the Middle East and Balkans for the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is currently the Janice B. and Milford D. Gerton fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center.

Lindsey Hilsum is the International Editor of Britain’s Channel 4 News, and the author of In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin. She has covered many of the conflicts and refugee movements of the past three decades, including Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Kosovo as well as the 2016 US election and terror attacks in Europe. From 2006-8 she was based in China, and in 1994 was the only English-speaking foreign correspondent in Rwanda when the genocide started. She has won several awards, and contributes to newspapers and literary magazines.

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