Elana Rabinovitch, Executive Director of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, today announced that for the first time in its history, the Prize has appointed a jury panel of five individuals.
Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch and Scotiabank President & CEO Brian Porter had prepared remarks for the Scotiabank Giller Prize festivities on Monday, November 10th, but circumstances prevented them from delivering them. We want to share those remarks with you.
If you can fit it into a tweet, we welcome you to share your congratulations and questions with Sean Michaels, author of the Giller Prize-winning Us Conductors. The Twitter chat will take place on November 12 at 2 p.m.
Sean Michaels has been named the winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize for Us Conductors, published by Random House Canada.
Deepa Mehta (Midnight's Children), Yannick Bisson (Murdoch Mysteries), and David Usher (Moist) will join Kim Coates, Jessica Paré and Naomi Klein as presenters for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize gala on Monday, November 10, 2014.
On October 27, 2014, Rick Mercer is to host the 2014 Giller Prize gala.
CBC is pleased to announce Kim Coates, Jessica Paré and Naomi Klein as the first three presenters for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize gala on Monday, November 10, 2014.
Today, in a morning press event at the Soho House in downtown Toronto, more than 100 media and members of the publishing industry gathered to hear the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize announce its shortlist.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize today announced its longlist for this year’s award at founder Jack Rabinovitch’s alma mater, McGill University, from Moyse Hall Theatre. Rabinovitch also announced that beginning this year, the prize purse will double to $140,000, with $100,000 going to the winner and $10,000 to each finalist, making the Scotiabank Giller Prize the richest fiction prize in Canada.
The 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist announcement will take place at 10:30 a.m. ET on September 16 in the Moyse Hall Theatre on the McGill University campus. The event will be co-hosted by McGill University’s Faculty of Arts.