Gil Courtemanche
Gil Courtemanche (August 18, 1943 – August 19, 2011).
Life and career
Courtemanche was born in
Courtemanche helped found the
He participated in making documentaries, including the series Soleil dans la nuit for TV5 Europe-Afrique-Canada, on the first anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. He also filmed a documentary on AIDS entitled The Gospel of AIDS. Furthermore, he helped produced various documentaries and advertisements on the third-world for Le Cardinal Léger et ses œuvres and OXFAM-Québec: leprosy in Haiti, the politics of water, agricultural development in the Philippines, education for disabled children in Thailand, etc.
His first novel,
Death
Courtemanche died August 19, 2011, from cancer, one day after his 68th birthday.
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 into English as A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali by Patricia Claxton(2003)
- La Seconde Révolution tranquille – Démocratiser la démocratie (essay) (2003)
- Une belle mort (2005)
- Le monde, le lézard et moi (2009)
- Je ne veux pas mourir seul (2010)
Awards and recognition
- Winner: Prix des Libraires, 2000
- Winner: National Magazine Award for Political Reporting, 1998
- Nominee 2003 – Governor General's Award (French to English translation)
- Nominee 2004 – Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
References
- ^ "Quebec writer Gil Courtemanche dies". The Globe and Mail, August 19, 2011.
External links
- Author page at Random House
- Author page at Les Éditions du Boréal (in French)
- Gil Courtemanche at IMDb