Kim Coates, Jessica Pare and Naomi Klein to Present at the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize Gala

TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - October 22, 2014) - 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. 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 be broadcast at 9 p.m. (10 p.m. AT /10:30 NT) on CBC 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. "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."

The short list is:
The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis
Tell by Frances Itani
Us Conductors by Sean Michaels
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night by Heather O'Neill
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan

The six authors on this year's shortlist were selected by a distinguished jury made up of some of the finest writers in North America and the UK: Canadian author Shauna Singh Baldwin, British novelist Justin Cartwright and American writer Francine Prose.

RED CARPET INFORMATION
Luminaries of Canada's literary scene will walk the red carpet as they arrive for the gala. Reporters, photographers and social media bloggers wishing to cover the glitz and glamour of the red carpet arrivals are asked to arrive by 5:00 p.m. Check-in will be on the second floor of the Ritz-Carlton at the media registration desk.