American journalist and author, he is a staff writer for “The New Yorker,” former editor of the “The Paris Review” and has contributed with “Granta,” “Harper’s” and “The New York Review of Books.” His first nonfiction work, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, was published in 1998. It is a witness account of rare intensity and ethical and political commitment of the genocide in Rwanda of 1994 with which Gourevitch won several literary awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Time Book Prize. British Sunday newspaper “The Observer” described him as ‘the world's leading writer on Rwanda.’ In 2001 he released A Cold Case and in 2008 Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story, a reportage coauthored with Errol Morris on the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.