Yann Martel (born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1963) is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2001-2003 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. He is also the first Canadian to represent the Washington Arts Commission.Although his first language is French, Yann Martel writes in English: "English is the language in which I best express the subtlety of life. But I must say that French is the language closest to my heart. And for this same reason, English gives me a sufficient distance to write."
It's against the ethos of our times to believe in airy-fairy things called gods.
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English is the language in which I best express the subtlety of life. But I must say that French is the language closest to my heart. And for this same reason, English gives me a sufficient distance to write.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Life of Pi
2012
novel
We Ate the Children Last
2011
TV Short
Manners of Dying
2004
short story
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Le carnivore
2015
Short special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Druckfrisch
2016
TV Series
Himself
Off the Wall
2014
TV Series
Himself
Late Review
2010
TV Series
Himself - Interviewee
The Hour
2010
TV Series
Himself
Cirque du Soleil's Poetic Social Mission
2009
TV Movie documentary
Himself
HARDtalk Extra
2005
TV Series
Himself
Bestseller
2003
TV Series
Himself - Author
The Sunday Programme
2002-2003
TV Series
Himself
Charlie Rose
2002
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
2013
USC Scripter Award
USC Scripter Award
Life of Pi (2012)
Known for movies
Life of Pi (2012) as Writer
Manners of Dying (2004) as Writer
We Ate the Children Last (2011) as Writer
Cirque du Soleil's Poetic Social Mission (2009) as Himself
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