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Posted on 20 July 2010
Los Angeles Times journalist Barbara Demick’s "brave" exploration of North Korea has won the £20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non- Fiction 2010.

Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea (Granta) follows the stories of six North Korean citizens living in the totalitarian country.

Demick was announced the winner in a ceremony yesterday evening (1st July). "It is the personal detail in Nothing to Envy that makes it both gripping and moving," said Evan Davis, chair of the judges and presenter of Radio 4 "Today".

"I think we knew this book had something when we found ourselves reading it out loud to spouses and partners. "And it is a real testament to Demick’s writing, that a book on such a grim topic can be so hard to put down."

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