Philip Gourevitch

Philip Gourevitch has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker since 1995 and a staff writer since 1997. He has travelled extensively for the magazine, reporting from Africa, Asia, Europe, and across the United States. He has written about the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda and Cambodia; the dictatorships of Mobutu Sese Seko, in Congo, and Robert Mugabe, in Zimbabwe; the Tamil Tigers, in Sri Lanka; Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front, in France; and the American soldiers who served at Abu Ghraib prison, in Iraq. He has also written about arranged marriages in Queens, a debt collector in Tulsa, and the late musician James Brown in Augusta, Georgia, and solving a cold-case double homicide in Manhattan. He also wrote extensively about the early years of the war in Iraq, and, in 2004, he served as the magazine’s Washington correspondent, covering the Presidential election campaigns. His articles for The New Yorker have on three occasions been finalists for the National Magazine Award and have twice received citations for excellence from the Overseas Press Club.

From 2005 to 2010, Gourevitch served as editor of The Paris Review. He is the author of three books: “Standard Operating Procedure” (2008), “A Cold Case” (2001), and “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda” (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the George K. Polk Award, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award, and, in England, the Guardian First Book Award. His books, articles, and short stories have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He is at work on a new book, “You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know.”