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Jean Baird's Booker Prize Project
Dooneyscafe.com is pleased to provide you with Jean Baird's year-by-year analysis of the Booker Prize jury deliberations.
1973
March 4, 2010 by
Jean Baird
Filed under Articles, Booker Prize Project, Featured
1973
It’s the 2008 award season in Canada as I write this—the GGs, Giller and The Writers’ Trust of Canada have been dolling out money for the past few weeks. Nino Ricci won the GG, Miriam Toews The Writers’ Trust Rogers Fiction prize, and Joseph Boyden the Giller. No agreement there. Only one writer appeared on [...]
1972
February 3, 2010 by
Jean Baird
Filed under Articles, Booker Prize Project
Jean Baird continues her Booker Prize analyses. 1972 was a good year.
Booker Prize, 1971
January 20, 2010 by
Jean Baird
Filed under Articles, Booker Prize Project, Featured
1971
Jury:
John Fowles, Saul Bellow, Lady Antonia Fraser, Philip Toynbee and John Gross.
I assume we all know the first three (how did they get rid of Dame West?) Philip Toynbee was a British writer and journalist. He wrote experimental novels, and distinctive verse novels, one of which was an epic called Pantaloon. He also [...]
Booker Prize, 1970
December 29, 2009 by
Jean Baird
Filed under Articles, Booker Prize Project, Featured
1970
Jury: David Holloway, Dame Rebecca West, Lady Antonia Fraser, Ross Higgins, Richard Hoggart. Holloway is not the guy who played in the CFL. I assume he’s the critic. Fraser is Harold Pinter’s second wife and a detective novelist and historian. Higgins? No idea. The Australian actor? Richard Hoggart, best known for writing The Uses [...]
Reading the Bookers: 1969
November 25, 2009 by
Jean Baird
Filed under Articles, Booker Prize Project, Featured
Jean Baird begins to read novels shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She begins with 1969…