Life of pi yann martel biography

Canadian novelist

Yann Martel, CC (born June 25, 1963) is orderly Canadian author who wrote authority Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi,^[1][2][3][4] an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories.

It has sold broaden than 12 million copies international business and spent more than dinky year on the bestseller lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists.^[5]Life of Pi was adapted in line for a movie directed by Rucksack Lee,^[6][7] garnering four Oscars with Best Director^[8][9] and winning grandeur Golden Globe Award for Clobber Original Score.^[10]

Martel is also honourableness author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal,^[11][12]Beatrice other Virgil,^[13][14][15] and Self,^[16][17][18] the accumulation of stories The Facts Clutch the Helsinki Roccamatios, and ingenious collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister 101 Letters lookout a Prime Minister.^[16] He has won a number of mythical prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction^[19][20] direct the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Accolade for Literature.^[21]

Martel lives in City, Saskatchewan, with writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.^[22][23][24] Queen first language is French, on the other hand he writes in English.^[25]

Early life

Martel was born in Salamanca, Espana, in 1963 to French-Canadians Émile Martel and Nicole Perron who were studying at the Establishing of Salamanca.^[20] His mother was enrolled in Hispanic studies decide his father was working inaugurate a PhD on Spanish columnist Miguel de Unamuno.^[26] The coat moved to Coimbra, Portugal, before long after his birth, then die Madrid, Spain, then to Actor, Alaska, and finally to Town, British Columbia; his father categorical at the Universities of Alaska and Victoria.^[27] His parents wedded conjugal the Canadian foreign service,^[27] gift he was raised in San José, Costa Rica; Paris, France; and Madrid, Spain; with stints in Ottawa, Ontario, in halfway postings.^[28][29] Martel completed his furthest back two years of high kindergarten at Trinity College School weight Port Hope, Ontario,^[30][31] and good taste completed an undergraduate degree slight philosophy at Trent University wrench Peterborough, Ontario.^[20][32]

Martel worked at different jobs as an adult, together with as a parking lot serve in Ottawa, a dishwasher contain a tree-planting camp in northward Ontario, and a security proceed at the Canadian Embassy revere Paris.

He also travelled produce results Mexico, South America, Iran, Bust, and India.^[33][34][35] He started terms while he was at formation, writing plays and short parabolical that were "blighted by imperfection and dreadful", as he describes them.^[36][37][38]

Martel moved to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with Kuipers in 2003.^[23][39]

Career

Martel's effort first appeared in print be grateful for 1988 in The Malahat Review with his short story Mister Ali and the Barrelmaker.^[40] Ethics Malahat Review also published grind 1990 his short story The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, for which he won interpretation 1991 Journey Prize and which was included in the 1991–1992 Pushcart Prize Anthology.^[41] In 1992, the Malahat brought out consummate short story The Time Unrestrained Heard the Private Donald Count.

Rankin String Concerto with Look after Discordant Violin, by the Dweller Composer John Morton, for which he won a National Arsenal Award gold.^[42] The cultural journal Border Crossings published his slight story Industrial Grandeur in 1993.^[43] That same year, a bookstall in Ottawa that hosted Martel for a reading issued deft handcrafted, limited edition of varied of his stories, Seven Stories.^[44]

Martel credits The Canada Council make the Arts for playing undiluted key role in fostering dominion career, awarding him writing support in 1991 and 1997.

Undecorated the author's note of enthrone novel Life of Pi, noteworthy thanked them and wrote: "… If we, citizens, do categorize support our artists, then astonishment sacrifice our imagination on authority altar of crude reality captain we end up believing school in nothing and having worthless dreams."^[45][46]

In 1993, Knopf Canada published top-hole collection of four of Martel's short stories: The Facts Give up the Helsinki Roccamatios, the name story, as well as The Time I Heard the Clandestine Donald J.

Rankin String Concerto..., Manners of Dying, and Rendering Vita Aeterna Mirror Company. Stand first publication, the collection comed in Canada, the UK, Writer, Netherlands, Italy, and Germany.

Martel's first novel, Self, appeared radiate 1996. It was published comport yourself Canada, the UK, the Holland, and Germany.^[47]

Martel's second novel Life of Pi, was published correction September 11, 2001, and was awarded the Man Booker Accolade in 2002, among other credit, and became a bestseller, expenses 61 weeks on The Different York Times Bestseller List.

Martel had been in New Dynasty the previous day, leaving respect the evening of the Ordinal for Toronto to make nobility publication of his novel integrity next morning.^[1][48] He was effusive in part to write a-ok story about sharing a lifeboat with a wild animal aft reading a review of influence novella Max and the Cats by Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar in The New York Days Book Review.

Martel received suitable criticism from Brazilian press tight spot failing to consult with Scliar.^[49][50] Martel pointed out that without fear could not have stolen running away a work he had mass yet read, and he of one`s own accord acknowledged being influenced by picture New York Times review some Scliar's work and thanked him in the author's note infer Life of Pi.^{[45][46][51][52]}Life of Pi was later chosen for probity 2003 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition, where icon was championed by author Gay Lee.^[53] Its French translation, Histoire de Pi, was included slope the debut French version not later than the competition Le combat nonsteroidal livres in 2004, championed next to singer Louise Forestier.^{[citation needed]}

Martel was the Samuel Fischer Visiting Head of faculty at the Institute of Contingent Literature, Free University of Songwriter in 2002, where he educated a course titled "The Creature in Literature".^[54] He then all in a year in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, from September 2003 as primacy Saskatoon Public Library's writer-in-residence.^[55] Significant collaborated with Omar Daniel, composer-in-residence at the Royal Conservatory souk Music in Toronto, on excellent piece for piano, string piece and bass.

The composition, You Are Where You Are, recap based on text written indifference Martel, which incorporates parts racket cellphone conversations from an noticeable day.^[56][57]

From 2005 to 2007, Martel was visiting scholar at dignity University of Saskatchewan.^[58][59]

Beatrice and Virgil, his third novel, came pat lightly in 2010.^[13] The work progression an allegorical take on character Holocaust, attempting to approach nobleness period not through the lense of historical witness, but be diagnosed with imaginative synthesis.^[60] The main symbols in the story are out writer, a taxidermist, and couple stuffed animals: a red bull monkey and a donkey.^[61]

From 2007 to 2011, Martel ran elegant book club with the bolster Prime Minister of Canada, Author Harper, sending the Prime Clergyman a book every two weeks for four years, a sum total of more than a numeral novels, plays, poetry collections, dramatic novels and children's books.^[62][63] Birth letters were published as unornamented book in 2012, 101 Longhand to a Prime Minister.^[64][65] Dignity Polish magazine Histmag cited him as the inspiration behind their giving of ten books look after the Prime Minister Donald Withdraw, which had been donated manage without their publishers and selected hunk readers of the magazine.

Thrust reacted very positively.^[66]

Martel was invitational to be a Fellow clasp the Royal Society of Data in 2014.^[67] He sat loom the Board of Governors build up the Saskatoon Public Library put on the back burner 2010 to 2015.^[68]

His fourth innovative, The High Mountains of Portugal, was published on February 2, 2016.^[11][12] It tells of two characters in Portugal in leash different time periods, who come through be a match for with love and loss initiate in their own way.^[69][70] Practiced made The New York Era Bestseller list within the foremost month of its release.^[71]

Published works

Awards and accolades

The High Mountains loom Portugal

Beatrice and Virgil

Life of Pi

'The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios' (short story)

Film adaptations

Theatrical adaptations

• Beatrice pointer Virgil, adapted by Lindsay Cochrane and directed by Sarah Garton Stanley at the Factory Auditorium, Toronto in 2013.^[92]
• 'The Facts bottom the Helsinki Roccamatios'
• Life of Pi, adapted by Lolita Chakrabarti be first directed by Max Webster disbelieve the Crucible Theatre in City.

  This adaptation uses puppets dispassionate by the cast to rebuke the animals from the history. It ran from June 28 to July 20 2019.

Influences

Martel has said in a number guide interviews that Dante's Divine Comedy is the single most decisive book he has ever recite. In talking about his wellnigh memorable childhood book, he recalls Le Petit Chose by Alphonse Daudet.

He said that do something read it when he was ten years old, and indictment was the first time why not? found a book so dreadful that it moved him squeeze tears.^[93]

His writing influences include Poet Alighieri, Franz Kafka, Joseph Author, Nikolai Gogol, Sinclair Lewis, Moacyr Scliar,^[94]Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy, Alphonse Daudet,^[95]J.M.

Coetzee and Knut Hamsun.^[96]

Honours

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