Besieged

Twenty years after the siege of Sarajevo, BBC Samuel Johnson Prize winner Barbara Demick revisits her compelling account of living in a city under fire.

Barbara Demick won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nothing to Envy (Granta, 2010), her seminal book on North Korea, which went on to be shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 'Winner of Winners' Award in 2023. She is also the author of Eat the Buddha (Granta, 2020) which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, and Besieged (Granta, 2012), her account of the war in Sarajevo, which won the George Polk Award, the Robert F Kennedy Award and was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize. She lives in New York.