This year's no different. The Giller Prize committee were so inundated with requests for invitations that they even had to give the piano player the boot. They eventually narrowed the guest list down to a few 473 people. The cap of the evening went to Bonnie Burnard who took home the Giller Prize for her novel A Good House . Apart from the cheque and a statue, winning the Giller Prize is certain to give sales of Burnard's novel a major boost.
Guests pick up their name cards from a table at the entrance.
The Mark of the Angel arrives Author Susan Swan Jack Rabinovitch, founder of the Giller Prize, with Pamela Wallin Mordecai Richler, winner of the 1997 Giller Prize for Barney's Version.