Yann Martel is a Canadian writer, the author of a collection of short stories, a compilation of letters, and four novels, notably Life of Pi, for which he won the 2002 Man Booker Prize and which was adapted for the screen and brought to the stage. His fifth novel, Son of Nobody, inspired by Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War, has just come out.
He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.