Jean Baird, Author at dooneyscafe.com

Jean Baird

Jean Baird is the co-editor, with George Bowering, of The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning (Random House, 2009), and the author of The Booker Project.

2012: The Booker Prize Project — Completed!

By Jean Baird / 2013 May 23

Posted in Articles,Booker Prize Project,Featured

Jean Baird’s multi-year survey of the nominees and winners of the Booker Prize and her reflections on literary prizes is completed with her 2012 report.

2009

By Jean Baird / 2013 May 21

Posted in Booker Prize Project

Jean Baird offers some advice for readers and reports on the 2009 Booker Prize.

2007

By Jean Baird / 2013 May 17

Posted in Booker Prize Project

Jean Baird offers a guide for literary jurors and looks at the 2007 Booker Prize novels.

2003

By Jean Baird / 2013 May 6

Posted in Booker Prize Project

Jean Baird’s report on the 2003 Booker Prize includes Michael Boughn’s essay on literary prizes.

2002

By Jean Baird / 2013 May 4

Posted in Booker Prize Project

Jean Baird’s report on the 2002 Booker Prize features a disacussion of Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi.”

1999

By Jean Baird / 2013 April 21

Posted in Booker Prize Project

Jean Baird surveys prizes and prize-money, and reports on the 1999 Booker Prize.

1994

By Jean Baird / 2013 April 14

Posted in Booker Prize Project

Jean Baird’s report on the 1994 Booker Prize (with a little help from her friends).

1993

By Jean Baird / 2011 December 18

Posted in Booker Prize Project,Featured

Jean Baird posts her analysis of the 1993 Booker Prize shortlist.

1992

By Jean Baird / 2011 November 9

Posted in Booker Prize Project

Jean Baird uploads her analysis of the 1992 Booker competition.

1991

By Jean Baird / 2011 October 25

Posted in Articles,Booker Prize Project

Jean Baird uploads the year 1991 to her Booker Prize analysis, along with an interesting squabble over the conditions of book publishing in Canada