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1,700 Canadian writers are asking the Giller Prize to drop charges against protestors.
By Dan Sheehan
November 20, 2023, 12:29pm
More than 1,700 Canadian writers—including Noor Naga, Omar El Akkad, and Sarah Bernstein—have signed an open letter expressing support for the protestors who disrupted the Scotiabank Giller Prize gala at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto last Tuesday.
On Tuesday night, the ceremony for this year’s Giller Prize—Canada’s biggest literary award—was interrupted twice by pro-Palestinian protesters, who took to the stage holding signs that read “Scotiabank funds genocide,” a reference to the Giller Prize sponsor’s investment in Elbit Systems, an Israeli weapons company.