Important DatesEnjoy these select photographs from the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize gala.
All photos provided courtesy of Tom Sandler
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Gala 2014 - Francine Prose, Justin Cartwright, Shauna Singh Baldwin
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/prose-cartwright-baldwin.jpgTheir work here is done ... 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize jurors Francine Prose, Justin Cartwright and Shauna Singh Baldwin get ready to celebrate the fruition of their work, the yet-to-be announced 2014 Giller Prize winner.
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Gala 2014 - David Usher, Sean Michaels
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/usher-michaels.jpgMusician David Usher gets ready to present 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Sean Michaels' novel Us Conductors.
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Gala 2014 - Naomi Klein, Miriam Toews
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/klein-toews.jpgCanadian author and social activist Naomi Klein gets ready to present 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Miriam Toews' All My Puny Sorrows.
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Gala 2014 - Padma Viswanathan, Deepa Mehta
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/viswanathan-mehta.jpgFilmmaker Deepa Mehta looks forward to presenting 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Padma Viswanathan's The Ever After of Ashwin Rao.
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Gala 2014 - Heather O'Neill, Jessica Pare
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/oneill-pare.jpgCanadian actor Jessica Paré is delighted to be presenting 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Heather O'Neill's The Girl Who Was Saturday Night.
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Gala 2014 - David Bezmozgis
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/bezmozgis.jpg2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist David Bezmozgis can't wait to have his book The Betrayers presented by Canadian-American actor Kim Coates.
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Gala 2014 - Kim Coates
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/coates.jpg... and Canadian-American actor Kim Coates can't wait to present 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist David Bezmosgis' The Betrayers.
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Gala 2014 - Frances Itani
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/itani.jpg2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Frances Itani is delighted to have her novel Tell presented by Canadian actor Yannick Bisson.
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Gala 2014 - Chantal Craig, Yannick Bisson
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/craig-bisson.jpgCanadian actor Yannick Bisson, here on the Scotiabank Giller Prize red carpet with Chantal Craig, is delighted to be presenting finalist Frances Itani's Tell.
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Gala 2014 - Heather Conway, Patricia Rozema
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/conway-rozema.jpgHeather Conway, CBC's Executive Vice-President, English Services and filmmaker Patricia Rozema, who assisted as a 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize Between the Pages guest reader, are not even telling each other what their Giller Prize winner guesses are.
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Gala 2014 - Rick Mercer, Jan Lisiecki
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/mercer-lisiecki.jpgWith Rick Mercer at the hosting helm and classical pianist Jan Lisiecki providing a beautiful (and calming) musical interlude, Scotiabank Giller Prize gala attendees and broadcast viewers are guaranteed an unforgettable evening.
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Gala 2014 - Gill Deacon
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/deacon.jpgGill Deacon, host of CBC Radio's Here and Now in Toronto, was also a lively host for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlist announcement back on October 6th.
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Gala 2014 - Megan Porter, Brian Porter, Jack Rabinovitch
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/porters-rabinovitch.jpgMegan Porter and Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch look on as Scotiabank President & CEO Brian Porter talks to media on the red carpet about the pride with which Scotiabank support and celebrates Canadian literary arts through the newly increased prize.
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Gala 2014 - Miriam Toews, Sean Michaels
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/toews-michaels.jpgIn one of our favourite pictures from the entire 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize event, finalists Miriam Toews and Sean Michaels tweet best wishes to each other.
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Gala 2014 - Diana Hart, Ryan Burella, Gallant Law
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/hart-burella-law.jpgThe Scotiabank team of Diana Hart, Ryan Burella and Gallant Law are excited to be part of the culmination of another busy and rewarding Scotiabank Giller Prize season.
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Gala 2014 - Miranda Hill, Lawrence Hill
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/hills.jpgAuthors Miranda Hill and Lawrence Hill look forward to celebrating literary milestones like the awarding of the Scotiabank Giller Prize. With Project Bookmark Canada and the television mini-series debut of The Book of Negroes, they indeed have much to celebrate.
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Gala 2014 - Denise Donlon, Gordon Pinsent
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/donlon-pinsent.jpgTelevision producer and executive Denise Donlon is particularly thrilled to be in attendance with beloved actor Gordon Pinsent, who assisted as a 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize Between the Pages guest reader.
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Gala 2014 - Eleanor Wachtel, Matt Galloway
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/wachtel-galloway.jpgTwo of the brightest smiles at the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize celebration belong to two of the biggest booklovers: CBC Radio Writers and Company host Eleanor Wachtel and CBC Radio Metro Morning host Matt Galloway.
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Gala 2014 - Sabi Marwah, Amrin Marwah
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/marwahs.jpgTwo more 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize celebrants upping the smile wattage at the event are Scotiabank's Sabi Marwah and his wife, Amrin.
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Gala 2014 - Scott Griffin, Krystyne Griffin
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/griffins.jpgScott and Krystyne Griffin put the poetry in the evening's celebration of prose.
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Gala 2014
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/gala-setting.jpgEvery place is set ...
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Gala 2014
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/gala-tables.jpg... and every table is ready to welcome 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize celebrants.
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Gala 2014
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/gala-start.jpgThe 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize broadcast is about to get under way.
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Gala 2014 - Rick Mercer
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/mercer.jpg2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize host Rick Mercer gets things rolling, and the audience - in the ballroom and across Canada - know they're in for an entertaining evening of sheer literary delight. (Click the link below the photo gallery for a full replay of the show from the CBC, which includes Mercer's fine time well spent with the finalists.)
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Gala 2014 - Kim Coates
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/coates2.jpgActor Kim Coates mesmerizes the crowd as he pays tribute to The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis.
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Gala 2014 - Kim Coates, David Bezmozgis
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/coates-bezmozgis.jpgIn turn, Kim Coates and the crowd are mesmerized as David Bezmozgis accepts the praise for his 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlisted novel, The Betrayers.
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Gala 2014 - Yannick Bisson
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/bisson.jpgWith a clever lead-in from his TV show Murdoch Mysteries, actor Yannick Bisson presents beautifully Frances Itani's Tell.
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Gala 2014 - Yannick Bisson, Frances Itani
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/bisson-itani.jpgAs her book's presenter Yannick Bisson looks on, Frances Itani offers gracious thanks for the attention paid her 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize shortlisted novel, Tell.
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Gala 2014
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/giller-audience.jpgAn attentive audience follows the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize proceedings, in the ballroom and across Canada.
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Gala 2014 - David Usher
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/usher.jpgMusician David Usher is perhaps the perfect presenter for Sean Michaels' Us Conductors.
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Gala 2014 - David Usher, Sean Michaels
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/usher-michaels2.jpgHaving presented Us Conductors with lyrical charm, David Usher listens in as Sean Michaels rhapsodizes about the experience of being a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist.
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Gala 2014 - Jessica Pare
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/pare.jpgActor and singer Jessica Paré offers a fine and glowing endorsement of Heather O'Neill's The Girl Who Was Saturday Night.
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Gala 2014 - Jessica Pare, Heather O'Neill
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/pare-oneill.jpgHeather O'Neill shares a giddy smile with her book's presenter, Jessica Paré.
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Gala 2014 - Naomi Klein
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/klein.jpgAuthor and activist Naomi Klein prepares to wax poetic about Miriam Toews' All My Puny Sorrows.
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Gala 2014 - Naomi Klein, Miriam Toews
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/klein-toews2.jpgNaomi Klein is as thrilled to present Miriam Toews' All My Puny Sorrows as Miriam Toews is to have her book presented by Naomi Klein.
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Gala 2014 - Rick Mercer
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/mercer-sorels.jpgMiriam Toews dared to dream big ... and Rick Mercer made that dream come true! Her warm winter Sorels awaited, regardless of the Scotiabank Giller Prize outcome.
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Gala 2014 - Jan Lisiecki
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/lisiecki.jpgClassical pianist Jan Lisiecki offers some gorgeous respite from the evening's suspense.
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Gala 2014 - Padma Viswanathan, Deepa Mehta
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/mehta.jpgHaving also helped to bring to life Padma Viswanathan's The Ever After of Ashwin Rao to life for the Toronto Between the Pages event, filmmaker Deepa Mehta really was the perfect person to present the book at the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala.
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Gala 2014 - Deepa Mehta, Padma Viswanathan
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/mehta-viswanathan.jpgPadma Viswanathan receives from Deepa Mehta a special, leather bound volume of her shortlisted work, one of six volumes prepared for all of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists.
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Gala 2014 - Jack Rabinovitch, Brian Porter
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/rabinovitch-porter.jpgOK, it's time to get down to business ...
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Gala 2014 - David Usher, Sean Michaels, Thea Metcalfe
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/usher-michaels-metcalfe.jpg2014 Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels shares that first golden moment with his wife Thea Metcalfe, as David Usher, Louise Dennys and other well wishers look on, the evening of November 10th at the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala.
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Gala 2014 - Sean Michaels
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/michaels.jpg"I feel like a whale who had found a whole city in his mouth … This mere nomination changed my life." Sean Michaels accepts the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel Us Conductors.
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Gala 2014 - Jack Rabinovitch, Sean Michaels, Brian Porter
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/rabinovitch-michaels-porter.jpgGiller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch and Scotiabank President & CEO Brian Porter congratulate 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors.
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Gala 2014 - Ric Young, Louise Dennys
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/young-dennys.jpgRic Young of Ryerson University and publisher Louise Dennys are most delighted with this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize outcome.
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Gala 2014 - Rob Appleford, Lynn Coady
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/appleford-coady.jpg2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady and her husband, University of Alberta professor Rob Appleford, know exactly how Sean Michaels and Thea Metcalfe are feeling at about that exact moment.
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Gala 2014 - Heather O'Neill, Jessica Pare, Arizona O'Neill
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/oneill-pare-oneill.jpgHeather and Arizona O'Neill were mad about spending the evening with Jessica Pare - and vice versa!
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Gala 2014 guests
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/giller-attendees.jpgCountless toasts are raised to the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists.
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Gala 2014 - Padma Viswanathan, Vincent Lam
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/viswanathan-lam.jpg2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Padma Viswanathan is inspired to meet 2006 winner Vincent Lam who, like Sean Michaels, won with a debut work.
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Gala 2014 - Thomas King, Helen Hoy
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/king-hoy.jpgWriters and professors Thomas King and Helen Hoy get no argument from their fellow bookish revelers that the Scotiabank Giller Prize never fails to surprise and delight.
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Gala 2014 - Ben McNally, Lynn Thomson
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/mcnally-thomson.jpgBooksellers extraordinaire Ben McNally and Lynn Thomson could talk all night about the Giller effect.
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Gala 2014 - Susan Kastner, Andy Barrie
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/kastner-barrie.jpgWriter Susan Kastner and former CBC broadcaster Andy Barrie are very pleased to be taking part in the Scotiabank Giller Prize festivities.
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Gala 2014 - Guests including Eric Hoskins, Samantha Nutt
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/hoskins-nutt.jpgMPP Eric Hoskins and War Child Canada Executive Director Samantha Nutt insist that they had the Scotiabank Giller Prize winner picked going back to the longlist, thank you very much.
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Gala 2014 - Sean Michaels
https://www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca/wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/michaels2.jpgAs the party proceeds, Sean Michaels works the late shift in the media room, recounting with pleasure his reaction to winning the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Click here to enjoy a full video replay of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize broadcast from the CBC.
