Yann Martel

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Yann Martel (born 25 June 1963) is a Spanish-born Canadian author best known for his book Life of Pi, a top international bestseller published in more than 50 countries.

It has sold more than 12 million copies around the world and more than a year on the bestseller lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among other top-selling products.

102 Letters from a Prime Minister to a Prime Minister was produced on film and directed by Ang Lee, winning four awards (the most for the case) including Best Director and Best Original Score.

Yann Martel's first language, French, is his first and greatest literary awards, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.

However, I must point out that French is the closest to my heart.

"English gives me a long way to write for the same reason."

Early life

Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1963 to French-Canadians Émile Martel and Nicole Perron, who were studying at the University of Salamanca. While his father was working on a PhD on Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno, his mother was enrolled in Hispanic studies. The family moved to Coimbra, Portugal, soon after his birth, then to Madrid, Spain, Fairbanks, Alaska, and finally to Victoria, British Columbia; his father worked at the Universities of Alaska and Victoria. His parents joined the Canadian foreign service and were raised in San José, Costa Rica, Paris, France, and Madrid, Spain, with brief stints in Ottawa, Ontario, between postings. Martel completed his two years of high school at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, and earned an undergraduate degree in philosophy at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

Martel served as an adult in Ottawa, a dishwasher in a tree-planting camp in northern Ontario, and a security guard at the Canadian Embassy in Paris. He has also travelled through Mexico, South America, Iran, Turkey, and India. As he describes them, he began writing while at university, drafting plays and short stories that were "blighted by immaturity and dreadful."

In 2003, Martel and Kuipers arrived in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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Career

Martel's short story Mister Ali and the Bartelmaker appeared in print in 1988 as a member of The Malahat Review. The Malahat Review also published in 1990 his short story The Truth Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, for which he won the 1991 Journey Award and was included in the 1991–1992 Pushcart Prize Anthology. The Malahat wrote one of his short story The Time I Heard The Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by American Composer John Morton, for which he received a National Magazine Award gold. In 1993, Border Crossings, a cultural journal, published his short story Industrial Grandeur. Seven Stories, a bookstore in Ottawa that hosted Martel for a reading, also published a limited edition of some of his stories.

Martel thanks The Canada Council for the Performing Arts for playing a vital role in his career, giving him writing grants in 1991 and 1997. "I would like to express my sincere appreciation to this amazing organization, the Canada Council for the Arts, without whom I could not have brought together [Life of Pi]. If we, the people, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude belief, and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless hopes."

Knopf Canada published a collection of four of Martel's short stories in 1993: The Truth Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, the fictional story, as well as The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto..., Manners of Dying, and The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company. The collection was available in Canada, France, Netherlands, Italy, and Germany on its first release.

Self, Martel's first book, debuted in 1996. It was published in Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Life of Pi, Martel's second book, was published on September 11, 2001 and was given the Man Booker Prize in 2002, among other prizes, and became a best-selling book in several countries, with 61 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List. Martel had been in New York the previous day and was scheduled to publish his book in Toronto on the evening of the tenth. After reading a review of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar's novella Max and the Cats in The New York Times Book Review, he was inspired in part to write a story about sharing a lifeboat with a wild animal. The Brazilian press had initially chastised Martel for failing to consult with Scliar. Martel said he could not have stolen from a job he had not read at the time, and he readily admitted being influenced by the New York Times' review of Scliar's life and thanked him in the Author's Note of Life of Pi. Life of Pi was later selected for the 2003 edition of the CBC Radio's Canada Reads competition, where author Nancy Lee championed the initiative. In addition,, Histoire de Pi, the French translation, was included in the Le combat des livres, the French version of the competition that was praised by singer Louise Forestier.

In 2002, Martel was the Samuel Fischer Visiting Professor at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught a course named "The Animal in Literature"; From September 2003 to September 2003 as the Saskatoon Public Library's writer-in-residence, he spent a year in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. On a piece for piano, string quartet, and bass, he collaborated with Omar Daniel, composer-in-residence at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. You Are Where You Are is a website that publishes text based on Martel's text, which includes portions of cellphone conversations taken from moments of an ordinary day.

Martel was a visiting scholar at the University of Saskatchewan from 2005 to 2007.

Beatrice and Virgil, his third book, came out in 2010. The piece is an allegorical interpretation of the Holocaust, attempting to explore this period not through the lens of historical investigation but rather through imaginative synthesis. A writer, a taxidermist, and two stuffed animals include a red howler monkey and a donkey, making the story's main characters.

Martel ran a book club from 2007 to 2011, with Stephen Harper, Canada's then Prime Minister, handing the Prime Minister of Canada, a book every two weeks, a total of more than a hundred novels, poetry collections, graphic novels, and children's books. In 2012, 101 Letters to a Prime Minister were published as a book. The book's inspiration for their giving books to Prime Minister Donald Tusk was provided by their publishers and chosen by readers of the journal, according to his article. Tusk responded positively.

In 2014, Martel was accepted to be a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He served on the Board of Governors of the Saskatoon Public Library from 2010 to 2015.

On February 2, 2016, his fourth book, The High Mountains of Portugal, was published. It tells of three characters in Portugal's three distinct time periods, who live and die each in their own way. Within the first month of its debut, it became the first bestseller list in The New York Times.

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