Yann Martel notable work Life of Pi
Yann Martel,  (born 25 June 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars including Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.Martel is also the author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil, and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with writer Alice Kuipers and their four children. His first language is French, but he writes in English.Life of Pi
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
New York Times Bestseller List 2002–03 (61 weeks)
Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature 2002
Winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2001
Winner of The Boeke Prize 2003 (South Africa)
Winner of the Deutscher Bücherpreis, 2004
Winner of the La Presse Prix du Grand Public 2003
Winner in the Scene It Read It category of the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2014
A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2001Film adaptations
Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee in 2012 and won multiple awards. Martel makes a brief appearance as an extra, sitting on a park bench across a pond while Irrfan Khan (Pi) and Rafe Spall (playing Yann Martel) converse.
His short story We Ate the Children Last was adapted as an independent film by Andrew Cividino.
Manners of Dying, directed by Jeremy Peter Allen in 2004.
The Facts behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
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