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!
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
Jean Baird offers some advice for readers and reports on the 2009 Booker Prize.
2007
Jean Baird offers a guide for literary jurors and looks at the 2007 Booker Prize novels.
2003
Jean Baird’s report on the 2003 Booker Prize includes Michael Boughn’s essay on literary prizes.
2002
Jean Baird’s report on the 2002 Booker Prize features a disacussion of Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi.”
1999
Jean Baird surveys prizes and prize-money, and reports on the 1999 Booker Prize.
1994
Jean Baird’s report on the 1994 Booker Prize (with a little help from her friends).
1993
Jean Baird posts her analysis of the 1993 Booker Prize shortlist.
1992
Jean Baird uploads her analysis of the 1992 Booker competition.
1991
Jean Baird uploads the year 1991 to her Booker Prize analysis, along with an interesting squabble over the conditions of book publishing in Canada