Books by Yann Martel
Yann Martel Biography & Notes
Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author.
A scholarship for his Canadian father to do his doctorate in Spain resulted in Yann Martel being born there in 1963. His father's occupation as a teacher and then a diplomat meant that Yann lived in various places including Alaska, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia.
As an adult, he continued to travel the globe, spending time in Iran, Turkey and India. After studying philosophy at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, at age 27 he embarked on a writing career. Living or visiting many cultures influenced his writing, providing the rich cultural background mix in Life of Pi that garnered him the prestigious 2002 Booker Prize for fiction. To write Life of Pi, Martel spent six months in India visiting mosques, temples, churches and zoos, and then an entire year reading religious texts and castaway stories. After the research, the actual writing required two more years.
A free spirit, Martel says he now lives in Montreal, Quebec because that is where his plane landed. He does not like to be tied down so owns very little and in the past, a lack of money meant working at whatever odd jobs available that would allow him to travel and write.
A scholarship for his Canadian father to do his doctorate in Spain resulted in Yann Martel being born there in 1963. His father's occupation as a teacher and then a diplomat meant that Yann lived in various places including Alaska, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia.
As an adult, he continued to travel the globe, spending time in Iran, Turkey and India. After studying philosophy at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, at age 27 he embarked on a writing career. Living or visiting many cultures influenced his writing, providing the rich cultural background mix in Life of Pi that garnered him the prestigious 2002 Booker Prize for fiction. To write Life of Pi, Martel spent six months in India visiting mosques, temples, churches and zoos, and then an entire year reading religious texts and castaway stories. After the research, the actual writing required two more years.
A free spirit, Martel says he now lives in Montreal, Quebec because that is where his plane landed. He does not like to be tied down so owns very little and in the past, a lack of money meant working at whatever odd jobs available that would allow him to travel and write.
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Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel ( 2010) |
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Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel ( 2010) |
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Darwin's Bastards Astounding Tales from Tomorrow by ( 2010) |
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The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel ( 2004)
In the title novella, a young man dying from AIDS is helped in his last ordeal by a devoted friend who tries to keep the dying man engaged by telling him stories of an imaginary family living in Finland, using one fact from every year of the 20th century. This collection, which also includes three short stories, was originally published 10 years before the author, Yann Martel, won the Booker Prize for LIFE OF PI.
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The Facts Behind The Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel ( 2005)
Four short works by the author of Life of Pi includes the title novella, "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American composer John Morton," "Manners of Dying," and "The Challenges of Science." Reprint.
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A General History of Quadrupeds by Thomas Bewick ( 2009) |
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La Historia De La Familia Roccamatio De Helsinki/ the Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios by Yann Martel ( 2007)
A very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century, whose horrors and miracles their story echoes.
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Life of Pi by Yann Martel ( 2002)
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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Self by Yann Martel ( 1996) |
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