Life of Pi is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001.
 The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age.
 He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Meenachil is the north-eastern region of Kottayam district in Kerala, south India.
 The name originates from Meenakshi the Dravidian goddess.
 Palai is the main town in Meenachil.
 The arterial river of the district is also named Meenachil.
 The river finds mention in Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel, "The God of Small Things".
Hotel du Lac is a 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer Anita Brookner.
 It centres on Edith Hope, a romance novelist who is staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva.
 There she meets other English visitors, including Mrs Pusey, Mrs Pusey's daughter Jennifer, and an attractive middle-aged man, Mr Neville.
Saleem Sinai is the protagonist of the Booker Prize-winning novel "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie.
 His life is closely intertwined with the events that take place in his homeland on the South Asia of pre- and post-colonial India, Pakistan and newly liberated Bangladesh (East Bengal).
 He is born at the moment in time when India and Pakistan emerge from British rule and lives during the new tumultuous struggles that engulf the new nations following August 15, 1947.
 Sinai embodies these physical struggles and rifts during, and serves as a metaphor for, the spiritual, religious, political and intellectual traumas of the young nations.
Life of Pi is a 2012 American survival drama film based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name.
 Directed by Ang Lee, the film's adapted screenplay was written by David Magee, and it stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu, Adil Hussain, and Gérard Depardieu.
 The storyline revolves around an Indian man named "Pi" Patel, telling a novelist about his life story, and how at 16 he survives a shipwreck in which his family dies, and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
 The film had its worldwide premiere as the opening film of the 51st New York Film Festival at both the Walter Reade Theater and Alice Tully Hall in New York City on September 28, 2012.
The Bengal tiger ("Panthera tigris tigris") is the most numerous of the tiger subspecies.
 By 2011, the total population was estimated at fewer than 2,500 individuals with a decreasing trend.
 None of the Tiger Conservation Landscapes within the Bengal tiger's range is considered large enough to support an effective population size of 250 adult individuals.
 Since 2010, it is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
 An example of charismatic megafauna, the Bengal tiger is the most familiar tiger subspecies, as well as the second largest
The white tiger or bleached tiger is a pigmentation variant of the Bengal tiger, which is reported in the wild from time to time in the Indian states of Assam, West Bengal and Bihar in the Sunderbans region and especially in the former State of Rewa.
 Such a tiger has the black stripes typical of the Bengal tiger, but carries a white or near-white coat.
Yann Martel (born 25 June 1963) is a Spanish-born Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel "Life of Pi", a #1 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 bestseller lists.
 It was adapted to the screen and directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars (the most for the event) including Best Director and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
The Famished Road is the Booker Prize-winning novel written by Nigerian author Ben Okri.
 The novel, published in 1991, follows Azaro, an "abiku" or spirit child, living in an unnamed, most likely Nigerian, city.
 The novel employs a unique narrative style incorporating the spirit world with the "real" world in what some have classified as magical realism.
 Others have labeled it African Traditional Religion realism.
 Still others choose to simply call the novel fantasy literature.
 The book exploits the belief in the coexistence of the spiritual and material worlds that is a defining aspect of traditional African life.
Manners of Dying is a 2004 Canadian drama film based on the short story of the same name (1993) by Yann Martel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his book, "The Life of Pi".

Question: Yann Martel authored a Man Booker Prize-winning novel featuring a Bengal tiger named what?
Answer: Richard Parker