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Yann Martel is a Canadian writer, novelist, and screenwriter born on June 25, 1963, in Salamanca. A member of the Royal Society of Literature, he writes in English and speaks both French and English. His professional career began in 1993, and he was educated at Trent University. Martel is the son of Émile Martel and has an unmarried partner named Alice Kuipers.
His notable work includes *Life of Pi*, for which he received the Booker Prize. Other works listed include *Son of Nobody*, *Crossing the Border*, *Viața lui Pi*, *The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios*, and *Life of Pi [Theater Tie-In]*. Alphonse Daudet is cited as an influence on his writing.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1963-06-25
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Son of Nobody
- Crossing the Border
- Viața lui Pi
- The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
- Life of Pi [Theater Tie-In]
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- 8th Street Menace — Yann Martel2024
- Club social — Self2008
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,497
- Total plays
- 26,452
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>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Deep learning
· 2015 · cited 74,838x
- Wound repair and regeneration
· 2008 · cited 5,837x
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,326x
- Pathways for practical high-energy long-cycling lithium metal batteries
· 2019 · cited 3,310x
- Body Fatness and Cancer — Viewpoint of the IARC Working Group
· 2016 · cited 3,142x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
- “My suffering left me sad and gloomy.”
- “Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”
- “The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.”
- “Animals in the wild lead lives of compulsion and necessity within an unforgiving social hierarchy in an environment where the supply of fear is high and the supply of food is low and where territory must constantly be defended and parasites forever endured.”
- “To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yann Martel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.