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	RandomHouse.ca \| Books \| Life of Pi by Yann Martel
		Yann Martel has written a novel full of grisly reality, outlandish plot, inventive setting and thought-provoking questions about the value and purpose of fiction.
		Martel is a confident, heartfelt artist, and his imagination is cared for in a writing style that is both unmistakable and marvelously reserved.
		Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of peripatetic Canadian parents.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0676973779 (1410 words)

	Yann Martel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author.
		Martel spent a year in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from September 2003 as the public library's writer-in-residence.
		In November 2005, the University of Saskatchewan announced that Martel will spend a year in the university's English department as a scholar-in-residence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yann_Martel (367 words)

	Online NewsHour: Conversation: Life of Pi
		YANN MARTEL: He is the son of zookeepers in India, and it's mid-70s.
		YANN MARTEL: No, not really, because my novel is about the line between fiction and fact.
		YANN MARTEL: Yeah, except that if you look at religion, what's remarkable is how the mystics of each religion speak the same language.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/conversation/july-dec02/martel_11-11.html# (1335 words)

	Yann Martel Biography: Author Yann Martel, author of the bestseller Life of Pi
		The son of Canadian diplomats and a wanderer by birth, Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain in 1963 while his father was completing a doctorate degree.
		Now living in Canada, Yann Martel is most recently the author of Life of Pi (2001), a modern mythical parable and the winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2001 as well as the Man Booker Prize in October 2002.
		Yann Martel was also among four foreign authors to be awarded a “German Bucher” prize at the Leipzig Book Fair on March 25, 2004.
	www.populistbooks.com /authors/m/yann_martel/yann_martel.htm (268 words)

	Jax Reads : Life of Pi : About Yann Martel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963 in Salamanca, Spain.
		His parents, both civil servants, are of French Canadian descent, and Martel spent his childhood living in several different countries throughout the world, including Costa Rica, France, India, Iran, Mexico, Turkey, Canada, and the United States.
		Martel attended Trent University during the 1980s and graduated with a B.A. from Concordia University in 1985.
	jpl.coj.net /JAX_Reads/Yann_Martel.html (215 words)

	Yann Martel - An interview with author
		Yann Martel : Pi was inspired by two things: India, and a so-so review I read ten years ago in the NY Times Review of Books.
		Yann Martel : A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal--of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania--but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place.
		Yann Martel : John, a zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation.
	www.bookbrowse.com /author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=823 (1601 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Yann Martel relishes Booker boost
		Yann Martel leapt in the air, arms aloft, and was quickly embraced by members of his team.
		Although he thought he had a good chance, Martel was convinced that it was not going to be him as the chairwoman of the judges Lisa Jardine was preparing to announce the winner on Tuesday.
		Martel says he went on a "spiritual journey" during the four years it took to write Life of Pi.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/2352437.stm (863 words)

	Yann Martel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yann Martel (born June 25, EHandler: no quick summary.
		On january 3, 1959, alaska was admitted to the united states as the 49th u.s....
		Life of pi is a novel by canadian author yann martel....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/y/ya/yann_martel.htm (1263 words)

	Yann Martel - Life of Pi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yann Martel is a well traveled individual who lives in Montreal and who had only written two other novels that I know of prior to this one.
		Martel writes in detail almost everything that could possibly effect and affect Pi on his journey and explains how Pi reacts and deals with each situation.
		Martel obviously spent a lot of time trying to deal with and plan this relationship throughout the novel and it came off very well in the end.
	www.darvell.ca /Reading/Fiction/MartelPi.htm (662 words)

	[tk]: Yann Martel storms the barricades
		Yann Martel is as mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore.
		What Martel is saying here is that the Canada Council is the only thing keeping us from becoming robots in a post-historical, totalitarian world that also somehow possesses a pre-industrial feudal economy.
		I'm sorry if you were expecting the elected representatives of this country to go down on one knee in your regal presence, but even the most junior cabinet minister has a lot more on his or her plate than what you face every morning when you sit down in front of the computer.
	nathanwhitlock.blogspot.com /2007/04/yann-martel-storms-barricades.html (1940 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Booker winner in plagiarism row
		Yann Martel, the Canadian author and winner of this year's Booker prize has become entangled in a row over the plagiarism of fictional ideas after freely admitting the inspiration for his prize-winning novel came from another writer's work.
		Martel said his book is about "religion, faith and imagination" whereas Scliar's story is a metaphor for Nazism and Brazil's 1964-85 military dictatorship.
		Martel has said he must have been confused as to where he read the review, and who wrote it, and he caused more controversy in Brazil when he said: "I didn't really want to read it.
	books.guardian.co.uk /bookerprize2002/story/0,12350,836092,00.html (636 words)

	TIME Asia Print Page: Castaway With Karma -- September 2, 2002 / VOL. 160 NO. 6 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Martel, a French-Canadian writer of gentle wit, lets Pi tell his own story in an engaging voice, starting with a wondrous childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of zoo owners.
		Martel has done his homework: if a tiger and an Indian boy found themselves floating in the Pacific, this is how each would respond.
		Martel's postmodern frame and half twist of an ending both reinforce his religious themes and inject a bracing dose of uncertainty.
	www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501020902-344145,00.html (581 words)

	Novelist Yann Martel to read, speak Oct. 20-21
		Martel is the author of three books in English, including his most recent novel, “Life of Pi,”; for which he earned England’s prestigious 2002 Man Booker Prize.
		The panel discussion will focus on “Yann Martel, Life of Pi and the World of Religion.” Participants on the panel, in addition to Martel, are U. of I. religious studies professors Valerie Hoffman, Richard Layton and Rajeshwari Pandharipande.
		Martel’s first book, published in 1993, was a short-story collection titled “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios.” The title story from “Facts” won the 1991 Journey Prize and was included in the 1991-1992 Pushcart Prize anthology.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /NEWS/03/1015martel.html (427 words)

	Yann Martel
		Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1963, of Canadian parents who were doing graduate studies.
		In 2002 Yann Martel came to public attention when he won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his second novel, Life of Pi (2002), an epic survival story with an overarching religious theme.
		Martel doesn’t provide the reader with easily digestible answers to these questions; yet in his sensitive, honest and unflinchingly open exploration of these matters, he leaves the reader with much to think about.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth03A14L010512634824 (1494 words)

	Interview with Yann Martel, Author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios - Harcourt Trade Publishers
		Yann Martel is the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Life of Pi.
		Here are four unforgettable stories by Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi.
		In the exquisite title novella, a very young man dying of AIDS joins his friend in fashioning a story of the Roccamatio family of Helsinki, set against the yearly march of the twentieth century whose horrors and miracles their story echoes.
	www.harcourtbooks.com /AuthorInterviews/bookinterview_Martel.asp (999 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Special Reports \| Portrait: Booker prize winner Yann Martel
		Martel is not just being theoretical, he's had lots of practice seeing through foreignness.
		Martel is not a small man but his blue trenchcoat makes him look slight.
		Martel didn't intend to be a writer, but like doctors' children who resist their fate in vain, he found himself following his father, who as well as being a diplomat is a famous, award-winning Quebecois poet.
	books.guardian.co.uk /bookerprize2002/story/0,12350,817341,00.html (1129 words)

	Teenreads.com - LIFE OF PI by Yann Martel
		When sixteen-year-old Pi Patel finds himself stranded in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with only a menacing 450-pound Bengal tiger for company, he quickly realizes that the only way to survive is to make sure the tiger is more afraid of him than he is of it.
		Yann Martel recalls that many Pondicherry residents provided him with stories, but he was most intrigued by this tale because Mr.
		Yann Martel sprinkles the novel with italicized memories of the "real" Pi Patel and wonders in his author's note whether fiction is "the selective transforming of reality, the twisting of it to bring out its essence." If this is so, what is the essence of Pi?
	www.teenreads.com /guides/life_of_pi1.asp (1067 words)

	Book Review - Life of Pi by Yann Martel
		Yann Martel keeps the story of Pi's long voyage moving at an interesting pace.
		Martel doesn't allow Richard Parker to be anything more than a dangerous Bengal tiger and Pi never to be more than a desperate boy lost at sea.
		Yann Martel will dazzle you with his prose and his mastery of arcane facts, and challenges you to believe his story.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /life_of_pi/review (1098 words)

	Life of Pi By Yann Martel, Book Review in America, the Catholic magazine with book reviews, news, opinion & Catholic ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yann Martel won Britain’s most prestigious literary award, the Man Booker Prize, for Life of Pi, a book that reinvents the lost-at-sea novel in quite striking terms.
		Martel himself has been storm-tossed in a controversy about whether he inappropriately employed the premise of a 1981 story by Moacyr Scliar.
		Martel’s novel is extremely well written, reflective when it needs to be reflective, thrilling when it needs to convey adventure on the high seas and ultimately more than engrossing in its generous blend of zoology and theology.
	www.americamagazine.org /BookReview.cfm?textID=2920&articletypeid=31&issueID=430 (1094 words)

	Yann Martel - Canongate Home
		YANN MARTEL was born in 1963 and lives in Montreal, when he stays put.
		Yann Martel was born in Spain but currently lives in Montreal.
		Yann's delight of a novel, Life of Pi, is his third book and was the winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
	www.canongate.net /YannMartel (152 words)

	Yann Martel Essays - Yann Martel Research Paper Essay - Yann Martel Term Papers
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	www.essaytown.com /topics/yann_martel_essays_papers.html (888 words)

	"Life of Pi," by Yann Martel - Salon
		But then again, in Yann Martel's "Life of Pi," our hero Pi (yes, as in 3.14, though his full name is Piscine, the French word for "pool") has just survived a sinking ship in the Pacific Ocean and witnessed the death of his family.
		Martel's "Life of Pi" might sound ridiculous, but by the time Martel throws Pi out to sea, his quirkily magical and often hilarious vision has already taken hold.
		Pi's story is so extraordinary that when he finally makes it ashore, he offers a comparatively boring version of the tale to two researchers, acknowledging that humans don't have much of a taste for the miraculous.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2002/08/01/martel/index.html (636 words)

	Reviews \| Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Yann Martel recently captured the coveted Man Booker Prize for his zoo parable Life of Pi, but even prior to that great victory his strange little book was generating a lot of buzz.
		There is no doubt that Martel has magic in him, for he alternately charms and shocks, seduces and repels in a way that makes his novel quite addictive.
		You may have already heard that Life of Pi is in essence a story of a 16-year-old boy and a tiger forced into frightening intimacy on a lifeboat for a harrowing seven months.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/lifeofpi.html (1064 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Joyful Martel wins Booker
		Yann Martel's surreal fable Life of Pi has won the prestigious Booker Prize.
		Martel was the bookmakers' favourite for his tale of a 16-year-old boy shipwrecked and stuck in a lifeboat with a tiger called Richard Parker.
		Martel thanked his family in French and praised readers in English for "having met his imagination halfway".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/2348685.stm (529 words)

	Life of Pi: A Novel by Yann Martel \| PopMatters Book Review
		Reviewing Yann Martel's astounding Life of Pi is a great deal like trying to solve Zen koans, the ancient conundrums used by Buddhist teachers to facilitate their disciples in reaching a state of enlightenment.
		Martel weaves the numinous so effortlessly throughout the story that its presence is completely natural and even taken for granted, like the air we breathe.
		Martel's facility at handling the spiritual, as if it is the most normal thing in the world, puts the reader, however secular in his or her orientation, totally at ease in a world of mystery and cosmic quests.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/l/life-of-pi.shtml (2458 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Life of Pi: Books (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His blissful voyage is rudely interrupted when his boat is scuppered halfway across the Pacific, and he is forced to rough it in a lifeboat with a hyena, a monkey, a whingeing zebra and a tiger called Richard.
		Yann Martel’s third work of fiction, Life of Pi, is a terrific book.
		I like Martel's poetic style of writing, his plot and the vivid descriptions he gave of things, characters and events results the story, which is similar to the style in DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/184195392X (855 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Life of Pi - Yann Martel - Hardcover - First U.S. Edition
		Author Biography: Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of peripatetic Canadian parents.
		In addition to Life of Pi, Martel is the prize-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, a collection of short stories, and of Self, a novel, both published internationally.
		Let me tell you a secret: the name of the greatest living writer of the generation born in the sixties is Yann Martel.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0151008116 (1622 words)

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