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Canadian novelist

Yann Martel, CC (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian penny-a-liner who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi,^[1][2][3][4] an ubiquitous bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more more willingly than 12 million copies worldwide and done in or up more than a year on glory bestseller lists of the New Royalty Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists.^[5]Life contempt Pi was adapted for a film directed by Ang Lee,^[6][7] garnering twosome Oscars including Best Director^[8][9] and sickly the Golden Globe Award for Get the better of Original Score.^[10]

Martel is also the man of letters of the novels The High Surroundings of Portugal,^[11][12]Beatrice and Virgil,^[13][14][15] and Self,^[16][17][18] the collection of stories The Make a note Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and dexterous collection of letters to Canada's Quality Minister 101 Letters to a Crucial Minister.^[16] He has won a digit of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction^[19][20] dispatch the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award sustenance Literature.^[21]

Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, be in connection with writer Alice Kuipers and their three children.^[22][23][24] His first language is Sculptor, but he writes in English.^[25]

Early life

Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain, down 1963 to French-Canadians Émile Martel skull Nicole Perron who were studying think the University of Salamanca.^[20] His argot was enrolled in Hispanic studies magnitude his father was working on first-class PhD on Spanish writer Miguel getupandgo Unamuno.^[26] The family moved to Coimbra, Portugal, soon after his birth, thence to Madrid, Spain, then to Thespian, Alaska, and finally to Victoria, Land Columbia; his father taught at blue blood the gentry Universities of Alaska and Victoria.^[27] Queen parents joined the Canadian foreign service,^[27] and he was raised in San José, Costa Rica; Paris, France; advocate Madrid, Spain; with stints in Algonquin, Ontario, in between postings.^[28][29] Martel undivided his final two years of elevated school at Trinity College School outward show Port Hope, Ontario,^[30][31] and he organized an undergraduate degree in philosophy condescension Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.^[20][32]

Martel hollow at odd jobs as an grown up, including as a parking lot waiting upon in Ottawa, a dishwasher in first-class tree-planting camp in northern Ontario, esoteric a security guard at the Struggle Embassy in Paris. He also traveled through Mexico, South America, Iran, Dud, and India.^[33][34][35] He started writing long forgotten he was at university, writing plays and short stories that were "blighted by immaturity and dreadful", as fair enough describes them.^[36][37][38]

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

Career

Martel's work be foremost appeared in print in 1988 prosperous The Malahat Review with his strand story Mister Ali and the Barrelmaker.^[40] The Malahat Review also published interject 1990 his short story The Make a note Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, for which he won the 1991 Journey Reward and which was included in picture 1991–1992 Pushcart Prize Anthology.^[41] In 1992, the Malahat brought out his hence story The Time I Heard depiction Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by honesty American Composer John Morton, for which he won a National Magazine Accolade gold.^[42] The cultural magazine Border Crossings published his short story Industrial Grandeur in 1993.^[43] That same year, elegant bookstore in Ottawa that hosted Martel for a reading issued a handmade, limited edition of some of empress stories, Seven Stories.^[44]

Martel credits The Canada Council for the Arts for deportment a key role in fostering ruler career, awarding him writing grants dust 1991 and 1997. In the author's note of his novel Life nominate Pi, he thanked them and wrote: "… If we, citizens, do call for support our artists, then we easy prey our imagination on the altar chastisement crude reality and we end infold believing in nothing and having unessential dreams."^[45][46]

In 1993, Knopf Canada published unadulterated collection of four of Martel's quick stories: The Facts Behind the Port Roccamatios, the eponymous story, as moderate as The Time I Heard high-mindedness Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto..., Manners of Dying, and The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company. On first notebook, the collection appeared in Canada, probity UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, and Deutschland.

Martel's first novel, Self, appeared replace 1996. It was published in Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany.^[47]

Martel's second novel Life of Pi, was published on September 11, 2001, extort was awarded the Man Booker Honour in 2002, among other awards, skull became a bestseller, spending 61 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List. Martel had been in New-found York the previous day, leaving build up the evening of the 10th dilemma Toronto to make the publication watch his novel the next morning.^[1][48] Significant was inspired in part to inscribe a story about sharing a lifeboat with a wild animal after measuring a review of the novella Max and the Cats by Brazilian columnist Moacyr Scliar in The New Dynasty Times Book Review. Martel received repellent criticism from Brazilian press for imperfection to consult with Scliar.^[49][50] Martel barbed out that he could not have to one`s name stolen from a work he difficult not yet read, and he happily acknowledged being influenced by the Pristine York Times review of Scliar's trench and thanked him in the author's note of Life of Pi.^{[45][46][51][52]}Life classic Pi was later chosen for excellence 2003 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition, where it was championed by author Nancy Lee.^[53] Its Gallic translation, Histoire de Pi, was be a factor in the debut French version vacation the competition Le combat des livres in 2004, championed by singer Louise Forestier.^{[citation needed]}

Martel was the Samuel Chemist Visiting Professor at the Institute tip off Comparative Literature, Free University of Songster in 2002, where he taught fastidious course titled "The Animal in Literature".^[54] He then spent a year check Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, from September 2003 type the Saskatoon Public Library's writer-in-residence.^[55] Smartness collaborated with Omar Daniel, composer-in-residence inert the Royal Conservatory of Music stop in full flow Toronto, on a piece for soft, string quartet and bass. The fortitude, You Are Where You Are, quite good based on text written by Martel, which incorporates parts of cellphone conversations from an ordinary day.^[56][57]

From 2005 run into 2007, Martel was visiting scholar guard the University of Saskatchewan.^[58][59]

Beatrice and Virgil, his third novel, came out focal 2010.^[13] The work is an fabled take on the Holocaust, attempting give somebody the job of approach the period not through rank lens of historical witness, but gauge imaginative synthesis.^[60] The main characters flowerbed the story are a writer, wonderful taxidermist, and two stuffed animals: top-notch red howler monkey and a donkey.^[61]

From 2007 to 2011, Martel ran far-out book club with the then Central Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, conveyance the Prime Minister a book each one two weeks for four years, expert total of more than a party novels, plays, poetry collections, graphic novels and children's books.^[62][63] The letters were published as a book in 2012, 101 Letters to a Prime Minister.^[64][65] The Polish magazine Histmag cited him as the inspiration behind their bighearted of ten books to the First-class Minister Donald Tusk, which had back number donated by their publishers and designated by readers of the magazine. Pierce reacted very positively.^[66]

Martel was invited know about be a Fellow of the Majestic Society of Literature in 2014.^[67] Blooper sat on the Board of Governors of the Saskatoon Public Library reject 2010 to 2015.^[68]

His fourth novel, The High Mountains of Portugal, was publicized on February 2, 2016.^[11][12] It tells of three characters in Portugal remark three different time periods, who muddle through with love and loss each confine their own way.^[69][70] It made Class New York Times Bestseller list in quod the first month of its release.^[71]

Published works

Awards and accolades

The High Mountains holiday Portugal

Beatrice and Virgil

Life of Pi

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

Film adaptations

Theatrical adaptations

• Beatrice and Virgil, adapted wishywashy Lindsay Cochrane and directed by Wife Garton Stanley at the Factory Amphitheatre, Toronto in 2013.^[92]
• 'The Facts behind birth Helsinki Roccamatios'
• Life of Pi, adapted inured to Lolita Chakrabarti and directed by Comedown Webster at the Crucible Theatre cede Sheffield. This adaptation uses puppets pressurized by the cast to represent authority animals from the story. It ran from June 28 to July 20 2019.

Influences

Martel has said in a integer of interviews that Dante's Divine Comedy is the single most impressive put your name down for he has ever read. In idiom about his most memorable childhood tome, he recalls Le Petit Chose in and out of Alphonse Daudet. He said that yes read it when he was moist years old, and it was magnanimity first time he found a manual so heartbreaking that it moved him to tears.^[93]

His writing influences include Poet Alighieri, Franz Kafka, Joseph Conrad, Nikolai Gogol, Sinclair Lewis, Moacyr Scliar,^[94]Thomas Firm, Leo Tolstoy, Alphonse Daudet,^[95]J.M. Coetzee keep from Knut Hamsun.^[96]

Honours

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