Gil Courtemanche

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Gil Courtemanche (born August 18, 1943 in Montreal , Québec , † August 19, 2011 ) was a Canadian journalist and writer .

Life

Gil Courtemanche was a foreign correspondent , especially in Africa , for the television station Radio-Canada . He also wrote for various Canadian newspapers. Since his first career steps in journalism , he was interested in international politics and the problems of the Third World .

His first novel A Sunday by the Pool in Kigali (original title: Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali ), which deals with the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, was adapted for the cinema by Robert Favreau. This dramatic love story A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali) opened in Canadian cinemas in April 2006.

bibliography

  • Douces colères (1989)
  • Trente artistes dans un train (1989)
  • Chroniques internationales (1991)
  • Quebec (1998)
  • Nouvelles douces colères (1999)
  • Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali (2000) (translated into German as "A Sunday at the pool in Kigali" )
  • La Seconde Révolution tranquille - Démocratiser la démocratie (2003)
  • Une Belle Mort (2005)
  • Le monde, le lézard et moi (2009)
  • Je ne veux pas mourir seul (2010)
  • Un lézard au Congo (2010)

Awards

  • 1998: Winner of the National Magazine Award for Political Reporting
  • 2000: Winner of the Prix ​​des Libraires
  • 2003: Nominated for the Governor General's Award
  • 2004: Nominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
  • 2007: Winner together with Robert Favreau of the Genie Award for A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali) in the category Best Adapted Screenplay.

literature

  • Lothar Baier : Rwanda. A Canadian novel and a report by a Canadian UN general deal with the Rwandan tragedy. Love in times of genocide. WoZ , April 15, 2004
    • dsb .: "I shook hands with the devil." Love in times of genocide. A Canadian Rwanda novel and a Canadian Rwanda testimonial. Friday April 30th, 2004
  • Brigitte Schwens-Harrant : Genocide. Bookworm. The Furrow , June 10, 2004
  • Ludwig Fels : Love in times of massacres. The Canadian Gil Courtemanche has written a poignant factual novel about the genocide in Rwanda. Die Zeit , July 29, 2004
  • Marko Martin : Rwanda can be so peaceful. ... but in Gil Courtemanche's reportage novel the disaster is clearly heralded. Die Welt , July 31, 2004
  • Sonja Zekri : Rwanda, mon amour. Gil Courtemanche's novel "A Sunday by the Pool in Kigali". Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 26, 2004
  • Ulrike Steiner: Exquisite: In the wake of the gigantic violent avalanche. OÖN , September 15, 2004
  • Hans-Peter Kunisch : The heart of the gloom. "A Sunday by the Pool in Kigali": Gil Courtemanche's novel about the tragedy of Rwanda. Tagesspiegel , November 21, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Montreal Express: Gil Courtemanche est décédé ( Memento of the original of November 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.montrealexpress.ca
  2. ↑ Radio Canada: Gil Courtemanche n'est plus (French)
personal data
SURNAME Courtemanche, Gil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec, Canada
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2011