Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
The International # 1 Bestseller
Winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club’s New Voices Award for Best New Fiction of 2002
Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award
Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2002 (Best Book, Canada-Carib Region)
Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction
Winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2001
A Poets & Writers Magazine Best Book of Fiction for 2002
A CBC Canada Reads 2003 Selection
Shortlisted for the Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction, 2003
Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing
Shortlisted for the Spoken Word Award for Abridged Modern Fiction and the Spoken Word Award for Best Abridgment
Shortlisted for a Torgi Award
Winner of the Scene It Read It prize of the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards
A 2003 Selection of the One Book Arizona Program
A 2003 Selection of the One Book Santa Barbara Program
Winner of The Boeke Prize (South Africa)
Winner of the Deutschen Bücherpreis 2004
Winner of the La Presse Prix du Grand Public
Finalist for the 2004 Book Sense Book of the Year Award – Paperback
Inaugural Pick of the AOL Red Book Club
A Top 25 “Best of the Best” Book Sense Selection
Selected for Esquire’s list of the Top Ten Books of 2003
61 Weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List
Rights Sold
Audio (abridged UK): HarperCollins
Audio (abridged/unabridged World English): HighBridge
Arabic: Al-Kamel Verlag Japan: Take Shobo
Azerbaijan: Alatoran
Bengali: Sandesh Korea: Jakkajungsin
Brazil: Rocco Latvia: Atena
Bulgaria: Prozoretz Lithuania: Jotema
Canada: Knopf Marathi: Penguin India
Catalan: Columna Malayalam: DC Books
China: Crown (Complex) Norway: Dinamo
China: Yilin (Simplified) Norway: Lydbokforlaget (Audio)
Croatia: Znanje Poland: Znak
Czech: Argo Poland: QES Agency (Audio)
Czech: Czech National Radio (Radio) Portugal: Difel
Denmark: Borgens Romania: Editura Polirom
Denmark: Den Grimme Aelling (Audio) Russia: Exmo
Estonia: Pegasus Russia: Soyuz (Audio)
Film: Fox 2000 Serbia: Alfa
Finland: Tammi Slovakia: Ikar
France: DeNoel Slovenia: Mladinska (+Audio)
Fr. Canada: XYZ Editeur Spain: Destino
Germany: Fischer Sri Lanka: Sarasavi
Greece: Psichogios Sweden: Brombergs
Hindi: Penguin India Sweden: Bonnier (Audio)
Holland: Prometheus Thailand: Image
Hungary: Europa Turkey: Inkilap
Iceland: Bjartur UK: Canongate
India: Penguin US: Harcourt Brace
Indonesia: Gramedia
Israel: Kinneret
Italy: Piemme
Critical Acclaim for
Life of Pi
“Life of Pi could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life. . . . Although the book reverberates with echoes from sources as disparate at Robinson Crusoe and Aesop’s fables, the work it most strongly recalls is Ernest Hemingway’s own foray into existentialist parable, The Old Man and the Sea.”
– The New York Times Book Review
“An impassioned defense of zoos, a death-defying trans-Pacific sea adventure a la Kon-Tiki, and a hilarious shaggy-dog story . . . : This audacious novel manages to be all of these.”
– The New Yorker
“An impassioned defense of zoos, a death-defying trans-Pacific sea adventure a la Kon-Tiki, and a hilarious shaggy-dog story. . . : This audacious novel manages to be all of these.”
– The New Yorker
“A fabulous romp through an imagination by turns ecstatic, cunning, despairing and resilient . . . Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master.”
–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“…Compelling storytelling…”
–The Independent (UK)
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“A riotous imaginative excursion…”
–New Statesman
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“…Mesmeric, dreamlike…”
–New Internationalist