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About Yann Martel
Canadian author
Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for his novel Life of Pi. The book won the Man Booker Prize and became an international bestseller. Life of Pi was published in more than 50 territories and has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide. It spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, and was later adapted into a film directed by Ang Lee.
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Explore Mountains
- “I grew up in the small town of Greenfield Center, New York, which is in the foothills of the Adirondacks not…”Joseph Bruchac
- “Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.”Mehmet Murat ildan
- “I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living…”Srinidhi.R
Explore Nature
- “It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we canno…”Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- “Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the histor…”Ludwig von Mises
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Books by Yann Martel
Life of Pi
2003
Beatrice and Virgil
2010
The High Mountains of Portugal
2017
The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
2004
Darwin's Bastards
2010