Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963 of Canadian parents. After studying philosophy at
university he travelled and worked at odd jobs before turning to writing. In addition to the
Man Booker Prize-winning Life of Pi which has been translated into over fifty languages and
has sold over thirteen million copies worldwide he is the author of the novels Self Beatrice
and Virgil and The High Mountains of Portugal the stories The Facts Behind the Helsinki
Roccamatios and the collection of letters to the Prime Minister of Canada What is Stephen
Harper Reading? He lives in Saskatchewan Canada.
