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Yann Martel, CC (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail ...
- Novelist
Having failed to create much of a literary splash with his first two books, Yann Martel became a bestselling author with the Man Booker Prize for Fiction winning Life of Pi (2002). He turned to writing after doing a variety of different jobs, from washing dishes to planting trees.
- Salamanca, Spain
- Canongate Books Ltd
Gabrielle Mander. Yann Martel Canadian author best known for Life of Pi (2001), the story of the eponymous Indian teenager adrift at sea, after a shipwreck, in a lifeboat shared with a Bengal tiger. The son of peripatetic Canadian parents—his father was a diplomat as well as an accomplished poet—Martel lived in such.
Yann Martel ( Salamanca, 25 giugno 1963) è uno scrittore canadese . La sua opera più conosciuta è Vita di Pi, libro che gli è valso il prestigioso Booker Prize per la narrativa nel 2002 . Indice. 1 Vita. 2 Opere. 3 Riconoscimenti letterari. 4 Filmografia. 5 Altri progetti. 6 Collegamenti esterni. Vita [ modifica | modifica wikitesto]
9 lug 2022 · Yann Martel on writing Life of Pi: 'You want a sense that it was written in one breath' In an exclusive interview, the 2002 Booker Prize winner talks about the unique planning process behind his best-known novel — and making the fantastic feel believable
Yann Martel | The Booker Prizes. Home. The Booker Library. Authors. Yann Martel is best known for his 2002 Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, which was adapted for cinema by Ang Lee and won four Oscars and adapted for the stage by Lolita Chakrabarti and won 5 Olivier Awards.
Fiction. edit data. Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, the #1 international bestseller and winner of the 2002 Man Booker (among many other prizes). He is also the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (winner of the Journey Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister.