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Yann Martel
Yann Martel, 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, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie of the same name direct…
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culture · Canadian novelist (born 1963) · writer · novelist · screenwriter · prose writer · short story writer · musician · also Yann Martel, Martel
Born 25 June 1963 · Q13914
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2026· 7 entries
The Guardian: ‘Argentina needs to end its fantasy of being a European country’: Lucrecia Martel on the story of a killing
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The Guardian: Son of Nobody by Yann Martel review – Life of Pi author discovers a long-lost poem from Troy
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The Guardian: Yann Martel: ‘I hate the rich people of this world – of which I’m one, because of Life of Pi’
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The Guardian: Life of Pi author Yann Martel: ‘I thought the Iliad was a book for old farts… then I started getting ideas’
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Martel was cited as one of several "well-known progressive figures" who donated larger donations during the 2026 races.
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Martel endorsed Avi Lewis in that year's federal NDP leadership race
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2022· 1 entry
In a 2022 op-ed, Martel argued for replacing Saskatoon’s central library as a necessary public investment.
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Life of Pi review – Martel’s tall tale brought to astonishing life
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2016· 10 entries
The Guardian: Atwood and Martel among Canadian writers drawn into row over creative writing tutor's sacking
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The Guardian: Yann Martel: ‘My children aren’t impressed that I won the Booker or that I wrote Life of Pi’
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The Guardian: The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel – review
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The Guardian: The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel – digested read
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The Guardian: The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel review – a surreal offering from the Life of Pi author
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Remarking on living in Saskatoon in 2016, Martel said "What I like is Saskatoon has become more diverse.
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“loves the winters in Saskatoon, but thinks the city remains”
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“What I like is Saskatoon has become more diverse. I see that in my children’s school, (...) There’s more visible minorities. There’s more kids from the sub-continent, from India, from Pakistan. More Muslims, more people of African origin, a greater diversity”
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Martel said "What I like is Saskatoon has become more diverse
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Martel had lived in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for 13 years as of 2016.
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2014).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Goncourt des animaux (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (2003).
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“Wybierać zwątpienie jako filozofię życia to tak, jak wybierać bezruch jako sposób przemieszczania się w przestrzeni.”
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Booker Prize for Life of Pi (2002).
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Where he taught a course titled "The Animal in Literature"
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2001· 2 entries
And was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2002, among other awards, and became a bestseller, spending 61 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List
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Winner of The Boeke Prize 2003 (South Africa)
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1993· 1 entry
Knopf Canada published a collection of four of Martel's short stories: The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, the eponymous story, as well as The Time I Heard the Private Donald J
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1992· 1 entry
The Malahat brought out his short story The Time I Heard the Private Donald J
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Journey Prize (1991).
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1990· 1 entry
His short story The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, for which he won the 1991 Journey Prize and which was included in the 1991–1992 Pushcart Prize Anthology
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1988· 1 entry
In The Malahat Review with his short story Mister Ali and the Barrelmaker
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1963· 2 entries
Born 1963-06-25.
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To French-Canadians Émile Martel and Nicole Perron who were studying at the University of Salamanca
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