Yann Martel
Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. After studying philosophy at university, he travelled and worked at odd jobs before turning to writing. In addition to the Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi, which has been translated into over fifty languages and has sold over thirteen million copies worldwide, he is the author of the novels Self, Beatrice and Virgil and The High Mountains of Portugal, the stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and the collection of letters to the Prime Minister of Canada, What is Stephen Harper Reading? He lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Watch the Life of Pi official film trailer.
“That’s the nature of grief: It’s a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support”
‘My life as a writer was a quiet thing…’ – Yann Martel on winning the Man Booker Prize
Yann Martel
Guardian
The High Mountains of Portugal
“The moral and spiritual implications of his tale have, in the end, a quality of haunting tenderness”
Ursula K Le Guin
Guardian
Watch Yann Martel discussing Life of Pi following its original US publication in 2002.