Gil Courtemanche a journalist in international and third-world politics, and an author of several non-fiction works, whose novel on Rwanda’s 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, was successful and translated into 23 languages, died early Friday from cancer. His publisher les Éditions du Boreal said.
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (original French title: Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali) is the first and successful novel by Montreal author Gil Courtemanche
Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali, which recounts the Rwandan genocide of 1994 against the Tutsi, and it, was published in 2000.
The novel was translated into English as A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali in 2003 and made into the acclaimed film Un dimanche à Kigali in 2006.
Another of his books, Une belle mort, was also adapted for the screen in 2010.
He is survived by his mother, daughter, granddaughter, four sisters and one brother.
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.
These included Radio-Canada, the French-language network of the CBC; Quebec City Le Soleil; and most recently Montreal Le Devoir.
He was also one of the co-founders of the now-defunct sovereigntist newspaper Le Jour in the 1970s.
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