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Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for his novel *Life of Pi*, which won the Booker Prize and became an international bestseller. His work is significant for bringing contemporary Canadian literature to global audiences and exploring themes of survival, spirituality, and imagination.
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- 1963-06-25
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- Son of Nobody
- Crossing the Border
- Viața lui Pi
- The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
- Life of Pi [Theater Tie-In]
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- 8th Street Menace — Yann Martel2024
- Club social — Self2008
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Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2001-2003 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. He is also the first Canadian to represent the Washington Arts Commission. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Yann+Martel">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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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, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie of the same name directed by Ang Lee, receiving four Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Martel is also the author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil, Son of Nobody, and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
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