Yann Martel
Byng demonstrates his commercial flair
No other Scottish firm has ever produced a million-selling Booker Prize winner, as Canongate did with Yann Martel's Life of Pi. And if that was the moment publishers started paying...
Readings and Lectures: Spring Arts Preview 2010
...as the differences between Israeli and American humor, to be followed by a book signing (4/7) Yann Martel -- Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for The Life of Pi, Martel returns...
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Toronto's literary landscape defies shaping
...those written by Michael Ondaatje, Austin Clarke, Shyam Selvadurai, Neil Bissoondath, M.G. Vassanji, Yann Martel and many emerging others - the city is navigated by people for whom a new...
Fresh Ink
...writing. This article appeared on page FE - 8 of the San Francisco Chronicle Fresh Ink Yann Martel (above) has received a handwritten note from President Obama praising the...
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Jamie Byng goes for bling: Dizzee joins Canongate
...Jamie Byng, who saved the company from bankruptcy in 1994, snapped up rights to the novel Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. It went on to win the Booker Prize and become a huge bestseller.
Between the lines: spring reading
...son, who also wrote "Down to a Soundless Sea." "Beatrice and Virgil" by Yann Martel (Spiegel & Grau, $24, 224 pages; April 13): Martel's best- selling "Life of Pi" was a book club...
Interview: Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Tackling the monsters
...productions. Micmacs, for instance, was born out of frustration after failing to get a film version of Yann Martel's Man Booker Prize-winning fantasy novel Life of Pi off the ground.
Book Buzz: 'Lost City of Z' and Brad Pitt's beard
...USA TODAY The story of Percy Fawcett gets a boost from Brad; J.D. Salinger sales are up; and Yann Martel is out with "a hard book to write." Brad's bookish beard: Is Brad Pitt's...
Martel, 47, noted that nearly all books and movies on the topic are "factual, documentaries or memoirs. ... There's suspicion about using our imagination in writing about the Holocaust."
Book Buzz: 'Lost City of Z' and Brad Pitt's beard USATODAY.com Books - Top Stories | 1 month ago
Young Women Scholars Highlight President's Commitment to STEM
...be traced back to fifth grade, when she designed a solar-distillation device after reading Yann Martel's Life of Pi, a novel involving a shipwreck. The device would come in handy, she...
tableau picks your must reads for 2010
...incurable case of the hiccups, and Antwerp, a crime novel written in the style of a prose poem. Yann Martel, whose Booker Prize winning novel Life of Pi is taught in classrooms...
Publishers, sellers bet on which winter books will break through
...a lot of support from our booksellers." Other novels being talked about include Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi (April 13); Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed (Jan. 18);...
Dave Bidini on throwing the book at writers
...keep quiet even when she knows what's good for her"); Robertson Davies ("dead, but nonetheless"); Yann Martel ("prairie scoundrel, sometimes disguised wearing an afro wig"); Alice Munro...
