Life of Pi
Jamie Byng goes for bling: Dizzee joins Canongate
...came when its director 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...
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Between the lines: spring reading
"Beatrice and Virgil" by Yann Martel (Spiegel & Grau, $24, 224 pages; April 13): Martel's best- selling "Life of Pi" was a book club favorite. Here, a man named Henry embarks on an...
Interview: Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Tackling the monsters
...frustration after failing to get a film version of Yann Martel's Man Booker Prize-winning fantasy novel Life of Pi off the ground. Hired to write and direct the film, Jeunet spent two...
"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."
'Shocking' hype for Yann Martel's Holocaust tale thestar.com | 4 months ago
Book Buzz: 'Lost City of Z' and Brad Pitt's beard
...other books has cracked the list. Life of 'Beatrice': It has been nine years since Yann Martel's last novel, Life of Pi, a critical and commercial hit. His next novel, Beatrice and...
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...
Michelle Obama's guests: State of Union
...had a passion for science and invention: in 5th grade, she designed a solar-distillation device after reading Life of Pi in case she ever got stranded in the middle of the ocean. Li is...
tableau picks your must reads for 2010
...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 everywhere, is finally releasing his second...
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Publishers, sellers bet on which winter books will break through
...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); and The Lock Artist by...
Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, may become the best-selling Booker winner of all time
...the ten weeks since it won the prize, the book has sold 140,000 copies, 25 per cent more than Yann Martel's Life of Pi, the 2002 winner that went on to sell 1.2 million copies. I'm very...
Booker prize-winner Wolf Hall a howling sales success
...Wolf Hall, a novel based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, has sold 140,000 copies. This is 25% more than Life of Pi, the Booker winner in 2002 that went on to sell 1.2m. Despite the...
A tide of green ink: Can literature face the storm of climate change?
...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...
