A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali in Kigali" (French "Un dimanche à Kigali"), was released. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (original French title: "Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali") is the first novel by Montreal author Gil Courtemanche, originally published in 2000. Set in Kigali, Rwanda, the novel deals with a love affair between an elder Canadian expatriate and a young Rwandan, AIDS and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec, has been sent to the Rwandan capital Kigali to set up a television station. He falls in love with a Rwandan
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali Kigali" by Patricia Claxton in 2003 (). It was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for French to English translation. "Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali" was chosen for inclusion in the French version of "Canada Reads", "Le combat des livres", 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. Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2004 was awarded to the book by Rogers Communications and the Writers' Trust of Canada. In 2006, a movie inspired by the book, "A Sunday