Yann Martel

Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for Life of Pi, the Man Booker Prize-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy sharing a lifeboat with a tiger, which has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide. His other novels include The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil, and Son of Nobody, and he also wrote the story collection The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. He writes in English, though French is his first language.