Martel won the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Life of Pi, his story of a boy and a tiger adrift at sea. Beatrice and Virgil, his new novel, features a donkey, a howler monkey, and an enigmatic taxidermist in an equally whimsical and philosophical consideration of truth and deception, responsibility and complicity.
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Yann Martel
Yann Martel is a Spanish-born Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel, Life of Pi. His published works include Seven Stories (1993), The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios (1993), Self (1996), Life of Pi (2001), We Ate the Children Last (2004), and Beatrice and Virgil (2010).