The Booker is much to blame. Yann Martel was almost entirely unknown as a writer when, in 2002, he won the prize for Life of Pi, the story of an Indian boy castaway in a boat for 227 days with a big ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The two main characters are both called Henry. Henry the writer shares some similarities with Yann ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. I once taught a 16-year-old whose life was changed by reading Life of Pi. This is not the place to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Martel is headlining this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival, which starts on Friday, and turned his focus to Malcolm Turnbull’s bookshelf. His top picks for the Australian Prime Minister were: The ...

Life of Pi author Yann Martel’s open letter to a journalist who has spent his career exposing corruption in Kyrgyzstan, where he is sentenced to life imprisonment Listen to Yann Martel and John Mullan ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. By his own admission, Yann Martel is not a prolific writer. It has been 10 years since the Canadian ...

When I was a doctoral candidate at Oxford, I spent much of my time working in the papyrology rooms. Usually, my only company was the curator, a kind and learned Sardinian woman who is now a professor ...

Saskatoon resident and Life of Pi author Yann Martel is among the 135 appointees set to receive the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest civilian awards, from Governor General Mary Simon. The ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. Yann Martel compared it to winning the lottery — though being on the short list for the Man Booker ...

The Booker is much to blame. Yann Martel was almost entirely unknown as a writer when, in 2002, he won the prize for Life of Pi, the story of an Indian boy castaway in a boat for 227 days with a big ...