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Ian Tibbs
Ms.Rymal
May 29, 2017
ENG 3U Yann Martel - Entry 1 The author of the novel Life of Pi is known as Yann Martel. Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain during the year 1963, however his parents parents were from Canadian descent, nowadays he lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Early in Yann Martel’s author life he wasn’t too successful until Life of Pi, with his first book being The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, which he published in 1993, later follower he wrote a novel by the name of Self in 1996. What really put his name out there in the year 2002 when he published Life of Pi was when he won the Man Booker Prize for the fiction genre. A statement from Yann Martel being based on why he writes the novels he does says,

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