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 fifty territories. It has sold more than twelve million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Globe and Mail. He was born in 1963. Life of Pi was adapted for a film directed by Ang Lee that received four Academy Awards. He is also the author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil and Self.