The documentarian Valcourt falls for Gentille during this historical event in a novel partly titled for “A Sunday at the Pool” by the Canadian journalist Gil Courtemanche. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this event whose journalistic accounts include Shake Hands with the Devil and Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families.
ANSWER: Rwandan genocide [or Rwandan holocaust; accept descriptions of the genocide of the Tutsis] (Courtemanche’s novel is A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali.)
[10h] Tensions between Hutu and Tutsi students at an all-girls Catholic school presage the genocide in this French-language 2012 novel. This novel’s author also explored the genocide in books like Cockroaches and The Barefoot Woman.
ANSWER: Our Lady of the Nile [or Notre-Dame du Nil] (by Scholastique Mukasonga)
[10e] Jean-Philippe Stassen explored the title Hutu boy’s complicity in the Rwandan genocide in Deogratias, a book in this genre. A memoir in this genre chronicles Marjane Satrapi’s life growing up during the Iranian Revolution.
ANSWER: graphic novel [or graphic memoir; accept comic books or comics] (The memoir is Persepolis.)
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