Author Profile

 

Name: Yann Martel

Born: Salamanca, Spain 

DOB: June 25, 1963

Gender: Male

Genre: Literature & Fiction

 

About

" Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi. Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of peripatetic Canadian parents. He grew up in Alaska, British Columbia, Costa Rica, France, Ontario and Mexico, and has continued travelling as an adult, spending time in Iran, Turkey and India. Martel refers to his travels as, seeing the same play on a whole lot of different stages.”

 

" After studying philosophy at Trent University and while doing various odd jobs -- tree planting, dishwashing, working as a security guard -- he began to write. In addition to Life of Pi, Martel is the prize-winning author ofThe Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, a collection of short stories, and of Self, a novel, both published internationally. Yann has been living from his writing since the age of 27. He divides his time between yoga, writing and volunteering in a palliative care unit. Yann Martel lives in Montreal." 

 

Source: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/811.Yann_Martel

 

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