Awards & Winners

Philip Gourevitch

Date of Birth 01-January-1961
Place of Birth Philadelphia
(Pennsylvania, United States of America, Area code 215, Area code 267, Area codes 215 and 267)
Nationality United States of America
Profession Journalist, Writer, Editor, Author
Philip Gourevitch, an American author and journalist, is a longtime staff writer for The New Yorker and the former editor of The Paris Review. His most recent book is The Ballad of Abu Ghraib, an account of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison under the American occupation. Gourevitch has written on a variety of subjects—from ethnic conflicts in Africa, Europe and Asia to political corruption in Rhode Island and the music of James Brown. He became widely known for his first book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, which tells the story of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

Awards by Philip Gourevitch

Check all the awards nominated and won by Philip Gourevitch.

1999


Guardian First Book Award
Honored for : We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Nominations 1999 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Guardian First Book Award We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

1998


National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction
Honored for : We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
Honored for : We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda