Yann Martel
He was born in Spain of Canadian parents and raised in Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and Canada. As an adult, Martel has spent time in Iran, Turkey and India. After studying philosophy at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Martel spent 13 months in India visiting mosques, churches, temples and zoos, and spent two years reading religious texts and castaway stories. His first published fictional work, Seven Stories, appeared in 1993. Now he lives in Saskatchewan, Canada.
การเดินทางของพาย พาเทล เป็นนวนิยายผจญภัยแนวแฟนตาซีของ ยานน์ มาร์เทล ผู้เขียนได้รับแรงบันดาลใจจากเพื่อนในวัยเด็กคนหนึ่งซึ่งเคยเดินทางผจญภัยในอินเดีย ตัวเอกของเรื่องนี้ พิสซีน "พาย" โมลิตอร์ พาเทล เด็กชายชาวอินเดียจากเมืองพอนดิเชอร์รี ได้สำรวจประเด็นทางจิตวิญญาณตั้งแต่ในวัยเยาว์ เขามีชีวิตรอดจากเหตุการณ์เรือล่ม …
Beatrice and Virgil is Canadian writer Yann Martel's third novel. First published in April 2010, it contains an allegorical tale about representations of the Holocaust. It tells the story of Henry, a novelist, who receives the manuscript of a play in a letter from a reader. Intrigued, Henry traces the letter to a …
Here are four unforgettable stories by the author of Life of Pi. Written earlier in Martel's career, these tales display that startling mix of dazzle and depth that have made Yann Martel an international phenomenon. Inventive in form and timeless in content, each story is moving and thought-provoking. A Canadian …
Edgy, funny and devastating, Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer at the heart of which is a startling twist. This extraordinary life meanders through a rich, complicated, bittersweet world. The discoveries of childhood give way to the thousand pangs of adolescence, culminating in the sudden shocking …
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Fifteen years after The Life of Pi, Yann Martel is taking us on another long journey. Fans of his Man Booker Prize-winning novel will recognize familiar themes from that seafaring phenomenon, but the itinerary in this imaginative new book is entirely fresh. . . . Martel's writing has never …