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Yann Martel

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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Yann Martel, the son of diplomats, was born in Spain in 1963. He grew up in Costa Rica, France, Mexico, Alaska, and Canada and as an adult has spent time in Iran, Turkey, and India. After studying philosophy in college, he worked at various odd jobs until he began earning his living as a writer at the age of twenty-seven. He lives in Montreal.
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 To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.


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Life of Pi is a critically acclaimed 2001 novel centering on Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, a young Indian boy from Pondicherry who embarks on a harrowing journey after surviving a shipwreck. The complex narrative that interrogates the boundaries between reality and fiction, inviting reflections on faith, resilience, and the human experience.

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