{"id":659,"date":"2011-08-20T06:02:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T06:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-genocide-novel-author-dies\/"},"modified":"2011-08-20T06:01:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T06:01:09","slug":"rwandan-genocide-novel-author-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-genocide-novel-author-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan Genocide Novel Author dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Gil Courtemanche a journalist in international and third-world politics, and an author of several non-fiction works, whose novel on Rwanda\u2019s 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, was successful and translated into 23 languages, died early Friday from cancer. His publisher les \u00c9ditions du Boreal said.}}<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-369 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gil-courtemanche.jpg\" alt=\"Author Gil Courtemanche\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (original French title: Un dimanche \u00e0 la piscine \u00e0 Kigali) is the first and successful novel by Montreal author Gil Courtemanche<br \/>\nUn dimanche \u00e0 la piscine \u00e0 Kigali, which recounts the Rwandan genocide of 1994 against the Tutsi, and it, was published in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The novel was translated into English as A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali in 2003 and made into the acclaimed film Un dimanche \u00e0 Kigali in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Another of his books, Une belle mort, was also adapted for the screen in 2010.<br \/>\nHe is survived by his mother, daughter, granddaughter, four sisters and one brother. <\/p>\n<p>Courtemanche, who was born in 1943 and became a journalist in 1962, was recognized for his analysis of international politics for a variety of media.<\/p>\n<p>These included Radio-Canada, the French-language network of the CBC; Quebec City Le Soleil; and most recently Montreal Le Devoir.<\/p>\n<p>He was also one of the co-founders of the now-defunct sovereigntist newspaper Le Jour in the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Gil Courtemanche a journalist in international and third-world politics, and an author of several non-fiction works, whose novel on Rwanda\u2019s 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, was successful and translated into 23 languages, died early Friday from cancer. His publisher les \u00c9ditions du Boreal said.}} A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (original French title: Un [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}