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Friday, January 30, 2004 @ 10:30 am
ALL CONFERENCE PLENARY SESSION
Plenary Super Hero...
Evan Solomon
Considered "one of the top 100 people to watch" by Maclean's magazine, Evan Solomon is the co-host of CBC News: Sunday and Hot Type, an exploration of contemporary print culture, seen weekly on CBC Newsworld.
Nominated for a 2003 Gemini Award for best talk series, Hot Type is in its seventh season on CBC Newsworld. Some of the best and brightest of the world's fiction and non-fiction writers have been featured on the program. Hot Type showcased two Pulitzer Prize winning books - Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex and Samantha Power's A Problem from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide. Also featured were Canadian Yann Martel talking about his Booker Prize winning novel, Life of Pi and author Austin Clarke with his Giller Prize winner The Polished Hoe.
Hot Type looks to understand the world around us through books, all filtered through the active mind and engaging manner of Evan Solomon. "In a world that is getting ever more complex and faster moving, our show offers the much needed perspective, ideas and context," says Evan. "We speak with the smartest, most thoughtful people in the world who bring us ways of thinking that go well beyond the sound-bite, ways of thinking that shape the events we see every day on the news."
BROADCASTING
Evan is the co-founder of a new series called the Ingenuity Talks, which debuted in November 2003. The series will bring together the best and brightest minds in the world to generate new solutions to the pressing issues of the day. The topic in year one is Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everything. The Ingenuity Talks will combine CBC television and radio, Maclean's magazine and a book from the House of Anansi.
Prior to Hot Type, Evan hosted The ChangeMakers, a special six-part series on CBC Television, about writers and thinkers who have made a radical difference. From 1994 - 1997, Solomon was the host of FutureWorld, a Gemini Award-winning series on CBC Newsworld.
PUBLICATIONS
Solomon is the co-founder of Shift, an international award-winning magazine about technology and culture. He was the editor-in-chief from 1992 -1999.
He has worked as a journalist and writer for publications throughout North America and Asia, including The Globe and Mail, The National Post, The Toronto Star and The South China Morning Post. His first novel, Crossing The Distance, published by McClelland & Stewart, was a best-seller. Evan is the co-editor of a book, Fuelling the Future, released in November 2003.
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