About the Author

Gil Courtemanche is a journalist in international and third-world politics, and an author of several non-fiction works. Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali spent more than a year on Quebec bestseller lists. A film version directed by Robert Favreau was released in 2006.

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali was published in the New Face of Fiction program in 2003.



Books by this author

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (Vintage Canada, 2004)
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (Knopf Canada, 2003)


Literary Awards

• Nominee 2003 - Governor General's Literary Award - Translation
• Nominee 2004 - Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

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Book Reviews and Quotes

Praise for A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali:

"A few pages is all you need to be swept away into the terrifying madness of a country…. Exceptional."
-Jean-Paul Dubois, Le Nouvel Observateur

"A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a blunt, vividly visual account of a human cataclysm that has left a scar on the psyche of us all. At the same time it is a testament to love, its durabilility and frailty in the face of annihilation. Do not expect it to leave you untouched."
-Jonathan Kaplan, author of The Dressing Station

"Captivating… A love story full of beauty and tenderness."
-Voir

"This novel is not only powerful and beautifully written. Corrosive, denunciatory, Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali also evokes the powerlessness and the complicity that permitted the [Rwandan] massacre to take place."
-Le Devoir

"A voice that evokes humanity in all its depth and breadth, where executioner and victim are brother and sister, where death is a daily occurrence…. Gil Courtemanche has powerfully portrayed a lucid character deeply engaged in a humanist quest."
-Le Journal de Montreal

"Those who read this novel - and I hope they will be numerous - are in for some astonishing pages on the subject of love and death."
-David Homel, Books in Canada

"A fresco with humanist accents which could easily find a place next to the works of Albert Camus and Graham Greene."
-La Presse

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