Every year, authors, publishers, book lovers, and media types pack Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre to kick off the International Festival of Authors, and Monday night’s party was no exception.

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Author, editor, and publisher Douglas Gibson and ECW Press editor Jen Knoch

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Coach House Books publicist Evan Munday and author Cordelia Strube

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Aerial view of the festivities

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Wall-to-wall party-goers at Harbourfront's Enwave Theatre

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Author Eva Stachniak

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Writers Kim Moritsugu and Robert Rotenberg

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Writers Michael Robotham and Emily St. John Mandel

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Phil Hall, winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Poetry, and his publisher, BookThug's Jay MillAr

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Austin Clarke after receiving the 2012 Harbourfront Festival Prize (photo: Nancy Paiva)

Austin Clarke (right), recipient of the 2012 Harbourfront Festival Prize

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Austin Clarke after receiving the 2012 Harbourfront Festival Prize (photo: Nancy Paiva)

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Diane Miljours, program officer at the Canada Council for the Arts, and Sarah MacLachlan, president and publisher of House of Anansi Press

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Author Tamas Dobozy, nominated for this year's Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and Thomas Allen Publishers editorial director Janice Zawerbny

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