Writing on the Edge: Great Contemporary Writers on the Front Line of Crisis is a new book illustrated with photographs by award-winning UK photographer Tom Craig. Published in association with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), Writing on the Edge features fourteen essays that take the reader on a harrowing tour of countries in crisis. Tom accompanied each writer to photograph the patients and stories they witnessed. The visits took place in 2005 - and the essays and Tom’s photos were published in the Sunday Times that same year. The book will be launched on 20 April in the US, followed by the UK, Canadian, Australian and South African editions. The 276-page hardcover book is priced at $29.95 USD / $37.00 CDN / £19.95

Médecins Sans Frontières Press Release

WRITING ON THE EDGE
Great Contemporary Writers on the Front Line of Crisis

Photography by Tom Craig
Edited by Dan Crowe
Essays by Martin Amis, Danny Boyle, Tracy Chevalier, Jim Crace, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michel Faber, Damon Galgut, A. A. Gill, Joanne Harris, Hari Kunzru, Jon McGregor, DBC Pierre, Ali Smith, and Minette Walters

in association with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

An important book with an unblinking view of global issues, Writing on the Edge features fourteen essays that take the reader on a harrowing tour of countries in crisis.  Award-winning writer Martin Amis experienced firsthand the problems of gang violence in Colombia, South America; New York Times bestselling author Tracy Chevalier focuses on the abuse of women in Burundi, East Africa; Oscar-winning actor Daniel Day-Lewis writes of meeting children raised in war-torn Palestine; Booker Prize–winning author DBC Pierre addresses the unusually high incidence of mental health issues in Armenia. 

Award-winning photographer Tom Craig teamed up with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to approach some of the world’s best known writers. Using their gift for language and their fresh perspective, these writers visited Doctors Without Borders projects, bringing to vivid life the situation of communities whose suffering is too easily ignored. These powerful stories, accompanied by Tom Craig’s moving photographs make an impact on the reader that will not soon be forgotten.

About the Photographer, Editor and Sponsoring Organization: Tom Craig has been nominated three times for British Magazine photographer of the year.  Dan Crowe is the founder of blazingword.com, the literary editor of Another Magazine, and the author of How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors (Rizzoli, 2006). Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides aid in more than 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need and will speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols.  In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.  A portion of the profits from the sale of this book will go to MSF.

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