Gil Courtemanche (born at Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a journalist and novelist.

His novel Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali was chosen for inclusion in the French version of Canada Reads, broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004, where it was defended by writer, environmentalist and activist Laure Waridel. Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali eventually won the contest.

Bibliography

• Douces colères (1989)
• Trente artistes dans un train (1989)
• Chroniques internationales (1991)
• Québec (1998)
• Nouvelles douces colères (1999)
• Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali (2000) (translated as A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Patricia Claxton (2003))

Awards and recognition

• Winner: Prix des Libraires, 2000
• Nominee 2003 - Governor General's Literary Award (Translation)
• Nominee 2004 - Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize

External link

Author page at Random House