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Yann Martel


Born
in Salamanca, Spain
June 25, 1963

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Yann Martel is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, an 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. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars including Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Martel is also the author of the novels The High Mountains of Portugal, Beatrice and Virgil, and Self, the collection of stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister 101 Letters to a Pri ...more

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Average rating: 3.92 · 1,698,028 ratings · 61,669 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors
Life of Pi
3.94 avg rating — 1,647,292 ratings — published 2001 — 438 editions
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Beatrice and Virgil
3.18 avg rating — 21,500 ratings — published 2010 — 92 editions
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The High Mountains of Portugal
3.39 avg rating — 19,919 ratings — published 2016 — 82 editions
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The Facts Behind the Helsin...
3.50 avg rating — 3,620 ratings — published 1993 — 64 editions
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Self
3.44 avg rating — 3,001 ratings — published 1996 — 28 editions
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What is Stephen Harper Read...
3.83 avg rating — 488 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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We Ate the Children Last
3.53 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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101 Letters to a Prime Mini...
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The Moon Above His Head
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“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
tags: fear, philosophy
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