"Life of Pi 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. The novel has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. It was rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001. The UK edition won"
"Yann Martel 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 best-selling 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."
"list within the first month of its release. Martel has said in a number of interviews that Dante's ""Divine Comedy"" is the single most impressive book he has ever read. In talking about his most memorable childhood book, he recalls ""Le Petit Chose"" by Alphonse Daudet. He said that he read it when he was ten years old, and it was the first time he found a book so heartbreaking that it moved him to tears. Yann Martel Yann Martel (born 25 June 1963) is a Spanish-born Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel ""Life of Pi"","
"was around $3 million, probably the highest ever advance for a single Canadian novel. Martel's earlier novel, ""Life of Pi"", won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and sold seven million copies worldwide. Early on in the story, the protagonist, an author, (some say that the protagonist is a reflection of Yann himself) makes reference to Primo Levi's ""If This Is a Man""; Art Spiegelman's ""Maus""; David Grossman's ""See Under: Love""; Martin Amis's ""Time's Arrow""; George Orwell's ""Animal Farm""; Albert Camus's ""The Plague""; and Pablo Picasso's ""Guernica"". Extracts are quoted from Flaubert's ""The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator"" which"
"Life of Pi (film) 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 Hashmi, 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 and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. The film had its worldwide premiere as the"
"to the Academy Award, Ang Lee won best director awards from the Kansas City, Las Vegas, and London Film Critics. The film was awarded the Best Picture award by the Las Vegas Film Critics Society and was named one of the top ten films of the year by the New York Film Critics and the Southeastern Film Critics. Life of Pi (film) 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,"
"2004 and 2007. Keith Robinson also directed a second version of the play. He brought some of his company to work with students of the BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Education Course at the Central School of Speech and Drama. The joint production was performed at the Minack Theatre, in Cornwall, England, in late June 2008. It was well received by the press and community. Life of Pi 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"
"collection of four of Martel's short stories: ""The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios"", the eponymous story, as well as ""The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto..."", ""Manners of Dying"", and ""The Vita Aeterna Mirror Company"". On first publication, the collection appeared in Canada, Quebec, the UK, France, Netherlands, Italy, and Germany. Martel's first novel, ""Self"", appeared in 1996. It was published in Canada, Quebec, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany. Martel's second novel ""Life of Pi"", was published on September 11, 2001, and was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2002, among other prizes, and became"
"the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the following year. It was also chosen for CBC Radio's ""Canada Reads"" 2003, where it was championed by author Nancy Lee. The French translation ""L'Histoire de Pi"" was chosen in the French CBC version of the contest ""Le combat des livres"", where it was championed by Louise Forestier. The novel won the 2003 Boeke Prize, a South African novel award. In 2004, it won the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature in Best Adult Fiction for years 2001–2003. In 2012 it was adapted into a feature film directed by Ang Lee with a screenplay by"
"the insurance report, Yann sees that the agents also chose the first story. The project had numerous directors and writers attached, and the ""Los Angeles Times"" credited Fox 2000 Pictures executive Elizabeth Gabler with keeping the project active. In February 2003 Gabler acquired the project to adapt ""Life of Pi"" into a film. She hired screenwriter Dean Georgaris to write an adapted screenplay. The following October, Fox 2000 announced a partnership with M. Night Shyamalan to direct the film. Shyamalan was attracted to the novel particularly because its main character also comes from Pondicherry in India. The partners anticipated for"
"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. ""Life of Pi"" emerged as a critical and commercial success, earning over US$609 million worldwide. It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards which included the Best Picture – Drama and the Best Director and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. At the 85th Academy Awards it had eleven nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won four (the most for the event) including Best Director for Ang"
"Yann Martel, best known for the international bestseller ""Life of Pi"". It was released in July 2015 and has hit the New York Times Best Sellers list. It has since received highly positive reviews. ""Publishers Weekly"" had chosen ""The Divine"" for ""top ten graphic novel for spring 2015"", describing it later on as: ""Heady, hellacious, and phantasmagoric"". Jesse Karp on his Booklist review wrote: ""Stunning artwork and creeping dread weave together in this satisfying and moving page-turner"". Douglas Wolk from The New York Times described it as ""a too rare example of artists getting top billing"", referring to the artwork"
"for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals filed animal cruelty charges against Hackenberger based on the video evidence. ""Life of Pi"" was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won four (more than any other film from 2012): Best Director (Ang Lee), Best Cinematography (Claudio Miranda), Best Visual Effects (Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan de Boer and Donald R. Elliott) and Best Original Score (Mychael Danna). It was nominated for three Golden Globe Awards and won for Best Original Score. The film also won awards for cinematography, film editing, sound effects and original score at several other awards ceremonies. In addition"
"zoological lore and enthralling adventure tale, written with warmth and grace"". ""Master Plots"" suggested that the ""central themes of ""Life of Pi"" concern religion and human faith in God"". Reutter said, ""So believable is Pi's story telling that readers will be amazed."" Gregory Stephens added that it ""achieves something more quietly spectacular."" Smith stated that there was ""no bamboozlement here."" Gary Krist of ""The New York Times"" praised the book, but added that at times Martel ""pushes the didactic agenda of his story too hard."" In 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama wrote a letter directly to Martel, describing ""Life of"
"his career achievements in the field of music. Danna's wife Aparna is of Indian origin; the couple have two sons. He is the older brother of composer Jeff Danna. Recent projects include Deepa Mehta's ""Water"", Atom Egoyan's ""Where the Truth Lies"", Terry Gilliam's ""Tideland"", Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' ""Little Miss Sunshine"", Bennett Miller's ""Capote"", ""Moneyball"" and Marc Webb's ""(500) Days of Summer"". Mychael Danna Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian film composer. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for ""Life of Pi"". He has also won an Emmy Award for"
"a young age. It is set partly in Peterborough, Ontario, where Martel was a student at Trent University. ""Self"" was Martel's first novel, and followed the publication in 1993 of ""The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios"", his first collection of short stories. The novel, in Martel's own words, initially ""vanished quickly and quietly"", though it was shortlisted for the 21st Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award, then Canada's most valuable first-novel award with a prize of 5,000 Canadian dollars. More critical attention fell upon the book when Martel's second novel, ""Life of Pi"", won the 2002 Man Booker Prize. A"
"Pi"" as ""an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling."" In October 2005, a worldwide competition was launched to find an artist to illustrate ""Life of Pi"". The competition was run by Scottish publisher ""Canongate Books"" and UK newspaper ""The Times"", as well as Australian newspaper ""The Age"" and Canadian newspaper ""The Globe and Mail"". Croatian artist Tomislav Torjanac was chosen as the illustrator for the new edition, which was published in September 2007. A 2012 adaptation directed by Ang Lee and based on an adapted screenplay by David Magee was given a wide release in the United"
"a large diversity of beliefs that makes it exceedingly difficult to accurately portray religion as a defining characteristic. Humour, often ironic and self-deprecating, played an important role particularly in early Canadian literature in English, such as Thomas Chandler Haliburton and Stephen Leacock. In """", Margaret Atwood's seminal book on Canadian Literature published in 1973, the author argues that much of Canadian literature in both English and French is linked thematically to the notion of personal and collective survival. This theme continues to reappear in more recent literary works, such as Yann Martel's ""Life of Pi"", winner of the 2002 Booker"
"ancient myths from a variety of cultures Canongate Books Canongate Books (often simply Canongate) is a Scottish independent publishing firm based in Edinburgh; it is named for the Canongate, an area of the city. It is most recognised for publishing the Booker Prizewinner ""Life of Pi"". Canongate was named Publisher of the Year in 2003 and 2009. Canongate was founded in 1973 by Stephanie Wolfe Murray and her husband Angus Wolfe Murray. Originally a speciality press focusing on Scottish-interest books, generally with small print runs, its most major author was Alasdair Gray. In 1994 it was purchased from the receiver"
"2000. He was awarded the John Ciardi Lifetime Achievement Award by the National Italian American Foundation in 2002. He has received honorary degrees from Lafayette College and the University of Scranton. Jay Parini Jay Parini (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels, poetry, biography, screenplays and criticism. Having published novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, and Herman Melville, Jay Parini is regarded as one of the leading innovators in the genre of biographical fiction. ""While Parini’s contributions to American letters are many and varied, as he is a first-rate poet, a well-respected"
"Nancy Farmer Nancy Farmer is an American author of children's and young adult books and science fiction. She has written three Newbery Honor Books and won the U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature for ""The House of the Scorpion"", published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 2002. Farmer was born in Phoenix, Arizona. She earned her B.A. at Reed College (1963) and later studied chemistry and entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. She enlisted in the Peace Corps (1963–1965), and subsequently worked in Mozambique and Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe), where she studied biological methods of controlling the"
"of Pi"" in 1976 by St. Martin's Press. It was published as ""A History of Pi"" by Hippocrene Books in 1990. The title is given as ""A History of Pi"" by both Amazon and by WorldCat. A History of Pi A History of Pi (also titled A History of ) is a 1970 non-fiction book by Petr Beckmann that presents a layman's introduction to the concept of the mathematical constant pi (). Beckmann was a Czechoslovakian who fled the Communist regime to come to the United States. His dislike of authority gives ""A History of Pi"" a style that belies"
"named one of the ""Young Book Trust 100 Best Books"" 2002, commended runner-up for the Kate Greenaway Medal, ""Crispin the Pig Who Had It All"" 2004, named one of the ""Publisher's Weekly"" Books of the Year, the ""Bing Bunny"" series of books for toddlers Ted Dewan Ted Dewan is an American-born British writer and illustrator of children's books who resides in England. He is best known as the creator of the award-winning book series, ""Bing,"" now adapted into an animated television series. Dewan was born in Boston and raised in Lexington, Massachusetts, the first son of physicist Dr Edmond M"
"""Taking Woodstock"" was ""Life of Pi"", which was adapted from the novel of the same name written by Yann Martel. The story was a retrospective first-person narrative from Pi, a then 16-year-old boy from India, who is the only human to survive the sinking of a freighter on the way from India to Canada. He finds himself on a lifeboat with an orangutan, a hyena, a wounded zebra and a Bengal tiger. During this unlikely journey, young Pi questions his belief in God and the meaning of life. The novel was once considered impossible to make into a movie, but"
"City of Glass (1985), the lead character Quinn has a revelation that makes him think of the discovery of the strange hieroglyphs at the end of Poe's novel. In a 1988 ""Young All-Stars"" comic book written by Roy and Dann Thomas, Arthur Gordon Pym is a 19th-century explorer who discovered the lost Arctic civilization of the alien Dyzan. Pym goes on to become Jules Verne's Captain Nemo, eventually sinking the RMS ""Titanic"". This story also uses elements of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's 1871 novel ""Vril"". Yann Martel named a character in his Man Booker Prize-winning novel ""Life of Pi"" (2001) after Poe's"
"Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, which was released in 2018. Magee is currently writing an untitled musical about Hans Christian Andersen with Stephen Schwartz (composer). David Magee David Magee (born 1962) is an American screenwriter who was nominated for a 2004 Academy Award and a Golden Globe for ""Finding Neverland"". Along with Simon Beaufoy, he wrote the screenplay for ""Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day"" starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams, which was released in 2008. His 2012 screen adaptation of the novel ""Life of Pi"" by Yann Martel earned him a Satellite Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a"
"Mary Pipher Mary Elizabeth Pipher (born October 21, 1947), also known as Mary Bray Pipher, is an American clinical psychologist and author, most recently of ""The Green Boat"", which was published by Riverhead Books in June 2013. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969 and a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1977. She was a Rockefeller Scholar in Residence at Bellagio in 2001. She received two American Psychological Association Presidential Citations. She returned the one she received in 2006 as a protest against the APA's"
"Canongate Books Canongate Books (often simply Canongate) is a Scottish independent publishing firm based in Edinburgh; it is named for the Canongate, an area of the city. It is most recognised for publishing the Booker Prizewinner ""Life of Pi"". Canongate was named Publisher of the Year in 2003 and 2009. Canongate was founded in 1973 by Stephanie Wolfe Murray and her husband Angus Wolfe Murray. Originally a speciality press focusing on Scottish-interest books, generally with small print runs, its most major author was Alasdair Gray. In 1994 it was purchased from the receiver in a management buyout led by Jamie"
"his Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Rochester in 1974. He has been a laborer, maintenance man, commercial fisherman, weapons mechanic, university administrator and teacher, as well as a television writer and producer (""Simon & Simon"", ""21 Jump Street"", """"). To date, Perry has written 24 novels with publication of ""Old Man"" in 2017. He lives in Southern California with his wife Jo (née Lee) and two children. Thomas Perry (author) Thomas Perry (born 1947) is an American mystery and thriller novelist. He received a 1983 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel."
"of the Year"" by ""The New York Times"", ""Le Monde"", and the ""Los Angeles Times"". He has received numerous awards including the Grijalbo, the Planeta/Joaquin Mortiz in 1992, the Dashiell Hammett three times for his policial novels, and the 813 for the best police novel published in France. His biography of Ernesto ""Che"" Guevara (""Ernesto Guevara, tambien conocido como el Che,"" 1996) has sold over half a million copies around the world and won the 1998 Bancarella Book of the Year award in Italy. PIT's readership has developed into a cult following. Once when he gave a talk about Mexican"
"""Superior Death"", was nominated for the Dilys Award in 1995. ""Firestorm"" was nominated for the 1997 Anthony Award in the ""Best Novel"" category. ""Blind Descent"" was the next novel to receive attention from the mystery community, receiving a ""Best Novel"" nomination at the 1999 Anthony Awards, Dilys Awards and the Macavity Awards in the same year. ""Deep South"", published in 2000, won the Barry Award for ""Best Novel"" and was again nominated for the Anthony Award in the same category. Nevada Barr Nevada Barr (born March 1, 1952) is an American author best known for her Anna Pigeon series of"
"his award on 28 June in Oxford. The nominees for the second Man Booker International Prize were announced on 12 April 2007 at Massey College in Toronto. Canadian short story writer Munro was named the winner of the prize in 2009 for her lifetime body of work. Judge Jane Smiley said picking a winner had been ""a challenge"", but Munro had won the panel over. On Munro's work, Smiley said ""Her work is practically perfect. Any writer has to gawk when reading her because her work is very subtle and precise. Her thoughtfulness about every subject is so concentrated."" Munro,"
"and author is honored with the White Pine Award. There are usually about 10 different nominees for the award every year. 2002: ""Dancing Naked"", written by Shelley Hrdlitschka. Orca Book Publishers. 2003: ""A Foreign Field"", written by Gillian Chan. Kids Can Press. 2004: ""The First Stone"", written by Don Aker. HarperCollins. 2005: ""More Than You Can Chew"", written by Marnelle Tokio. Tundra. 2006: ""The Blue Girl"", written by Charles De Lint. Viking. 2007: ""Shattered"", written by Eric Walters. Viking/Penguin. 2008: ""Keturah & Lord Death"", written by Martine Leavitt. Red Deer Press. 2009: ""Little Brother"", written by Cory Doctorow. Tor Books/H.B."