CBC just announced the first three presenters for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize – Kim Coates, Jessica Paré and Naomi Klein will take to the gala stage on Monday, November 10th.
The work of finalists David Bezmozgis, Heather O’Neill and Miriam Toews will be introduced by the following special presenters: Canadian-American actor Kim Coates (“Sons of Anarchy”); Canadian actress Jessica Paré (“Mad Men”) and Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein (“This Changes Everything”). The remaining three presenters are still to be announced.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize gala will be hosted by Jian Ghomeshi (of CBC Radio One and TV’s cultural affairs program “Q”), and will be broadcast at 9pm onCBC Television from the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Toronto. It will also be live-streamed on CBC Books with a concurrent live chat, enabling Canadians across the country to be part of the Giller experience. With the finalists being celebrated and an author awarded the prize that night, the presenters will join the authors onstage to celebrate the year’s biggest achievements in Canadian arts and letters. An appearance on “Q” the following morning will be the first national broadcast feature interview for this year’s winner.
”With these three presenters, the CBC has begun putting together a very exciting lineup for this year’s awards,” says Jack Rabinovitch, founder of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, in a press release. “I can only imagine that the next three individuals to be announced will add immeasurably to the celebration of this year’s diverse list of finalists.”
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