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A tide of green ink: Can literature face the storm of climate change?This summer, Cape Farewell also took a team to the Andes; among them was the Canadian novelist Yann Martel, whose Man Booker-winning novel Life of Pi lightly touched on environmental themes with its fable of assorted species marooned on a... In this article: Nature, William Wordsworth, Ruth Padel, Robert Macfarlane, Climate change, Paul Kingsnorth, and Electric car |
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Guardian Unlimited | November 14, 2009
When Barack met Michelle
...moved here temporarily from Hawaii. Though the president reads aloud with his children in the evenings - he and Sasha are finishing Life of Pi - parenting in the White House is more complicated. Because the first couple cannot move...
In this article: Michelle Obama, Barack Obama Sr, Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, White House, Hillary Clinton, George Washington, and Bill Clinton
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Entertainment Weekly | November 12, 2009
Books: Best you read in '09?
...thinking I'd fly right through it, but I'm only about 500 pages in! I finally picked up "Once a Runner" by John L. Parker Jr. Also, "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel. Being a Children's Lit. professor, I read A LOT of young adult novels, I...
In this article: Alice Munro, John L. Parker Jr., Andre Agassi, and Yann Martel
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Independent.ie | November 12, 2009
Taking Stock: Ang Lee
...the knotty subjects that other directors might shy away from. Right now, he's working on bringing Yann Martel's Booker-winning novel Life of Pi to screen. It's a book many have said is unfilmable. "I think it's workable," he says...
In this article: Ang Lee, Taking Woodstock, Sense and Sensibility, Brokeback Mountain, Taiwan, Oscar, and Second World War
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National Post | November 07, 2009
The Saturday Interview: Author, Yann Martel
...50th anniversary of the Canada Council for the Arts, which helped launch his own literary career. (He is best known as the author of Life of Pi, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2002.) On that day, as Mr. Martel and 49 other artists stood...
In this article: Yann Martel, Stephen Harper, Canada Council for the Arts, House of Commons, Man Booker Prize, Harry Potter, and Paul McCartney
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | November 05, 2009
Joe Allston's Literary Diary
Our literary insider gets the gossip on Aravind Adiga and next year's literary heavyweights, including Ian McEwan and Life of Pi author Yann Martel * The rumour that David Godwin, Aravind Adiga's agent, had offered the Booker winner's new...
In this article: Penguin, Yann Martel, Aravind Adiga, and Atlantic
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scotsman.com - Scotland | November 03, 2009
Hit Obama books turn city publisher into Jamie Bling
...more than AGBP170,000 due to the collapse of Woolworths a previously counted its biggest success as the Booker Prize winning novel Life of Pi. It is preparing for further success towards the end of this year with releases including The...
In this article: Barack Obama, Edinburgh Evening News, Edinburgh, Booker Prize, Canongate Books, Woolworths, and Dreams from My Father
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thestar.com | November 03, 2009
'Shocking' hype for Yann Martel's Holocaust tale
...adaptation of Life of Pi, and Martel said he has "faith" in the project. "I'm just trusting that they'll pull it off," he said, and added that he envisions the character Pi Patel will be played by "some young, unknown Indian actor."
In this article: Yann Martel, Animal Farm, Academy Award, Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and George Orwell
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BBC News | October 31, 2009
Pi author plans Holocaust novel
Life of Pi is about a boy stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger Author Yann Martel is to follow his Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi with another story focusing on animals. Beatrice And Virgil, a literary allegory for the...
In this article: Yann Martel, Bengal tiger, Howler monkey, and Booker Prize
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Backseat Cuddler | October 30, 2009
Ang Lee Adapting 'Life of Pi' for the Big Screen
Director Ang Lee is adapting the book Life of Pi into a feature length film. Speaking recently withA Digital Spy, Lee mentioned that heaEURâ„¢s recently turned in his first draft of the script, and that we can probably expect it in two...
In this article: Ang Lee, Orangutan, Bengal tiger, Digital Spy, Yann Martel, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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MTV.com | October 30, 2009
Ang Lee Confirms His Next Film is 'Life of Pi'
...a tiger tame enough to employ for such a role. I wonder if the tiger from "The Hangover" is available. Any fans of the novel think "Life of Pi" could work as a movie? Are you hopeful that Ang Lee will do a good job bringing the source...
In this article: Ang Lee, Taking Woodstock, Oscar, Orangutan, Zebra, Booker Prize, DVD, Digital Spy, and Lust, Caution
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Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Canadian author Yann Martel. The protagonist Piscine (Swimming Pool) "Pi" Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of religion and spirituality from an early age and survives 227 days shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean.
First published by Knopf Canada in September 2001, the novel won the prestigious Booker Prize the following year. It was also chosen for CBC Radio's Canada Reads 2003 competition, where it was championed by author Nancy Lee. Its French translation, L'Histoire de Pi, was also chosen in the French version of the competition, Le combat des livres.
- Name:
- Life of Pi
- Country of Origin:
- Canada
- Genre:
- Novel
- Preceded By:
- Self
- Written By:
- Yann Martel
- Published By:
- Knopf Canada
- Length:
- 336
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- September 2001
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