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Yann Martel is the author of a short story collection, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and of four novels, Life of Pi (for which he was awarded the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, and The High Mountains of Portugal. Life of Pi was adapted for the silver screen by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars. Martel also ran a guerilla book club with Stephen Harper, sending the former prime minister of Canada a book every two weeks for four years. The letters that accompanied the books were published as 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.
'An explosion of ideas that keep the pages turning... [A] wild, provocative novel.' * Independent on Sunday, on Beatrice and Virgil * 'A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction.' * Los Angeles Times Book Review, on Life of Pi * 'Replete with every bizarre and beautiful thing on earth... [F]ans will delight.' * The Times, on The High Mountains of Portugal * ‘A brilliant novel of ideas….a powerful meditation on life, death, and the vanity of human wishes, all illustrated by a poem that would do Homer proud. A stunningly imagined revisitation of an ancient past that is every bit as awful as the present.’ * Kirkus Reviews [starred review] *
