At Toronto's Ritz-Carlton tonight (October 30), Jian Ghomeshi hosted the 19th annual Giller Prize gala on CBC. One of the most prestigious awards in Canadian literature was handed out (and $50,000 to boot) by Jian and Jack Rabinovitch to Will Ferguson for his novel 419. Check out our gallery below of some of the big Canadian names of literature and the screen on hand:
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