Author

Books by Yann Martel

Yann Martel is a Spanish-born Canadian novelist best known for Life of Pi, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 and has sold more than fifteen million copies worldwide. He studied philosophy at Trent University and worked a variety of jobs before writing full-time. His other novels include Self, Beatrice and Virgil, and The High Mountains of Portugal. He also wrote 101 Letters to a Prime Minister, a collection of correspondence with Canada's Stephen Harper in which he sent a book every two weeks with an accompanying letter. He lives in Saskatchewan.