Life of pi

-Yann Martel

Yann Martel is the author of Life of Pi, one of the international bestseller and winner of the 2002 Man Booker (among many other prizes). He was born in Spain in 1963. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada, with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children. He is the award-winning author of The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (winner of the Journey Prize), Self,  Beatrice & Virgil, and 101 Letters to a Prime Minister.

About book

Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a Tamil boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.