Gil Courtemanche is an author and journalist in international and third-world politics. He has written many non-fiction works and also made the award-winning documentary, The Gospel of Aids. When his first novel, Un Dimanche ala piscine a Kigali, was originally publishing in 2000 it spent more than a year on the Quebec bestseller lists and won the Prix des Libraires, the booksellers award for outstanding book of the year. He currently lives in Quebec where he works as a political columnist for Le Devoir.