Yann Martel







Yann Martel

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June 25, 1963

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place of birth
Salamanca, Spain

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Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi.





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avg rating: 3.79 | 89,700 ratings | 11,445 reviews | 5 distinct works | 32 fans
Life of Pi Life of Pi
by Yann Martel
avg rating 3.80 — 73,959 ratings — published 2001
76 editions
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The Facts Behind the Helsinki... The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios
by Yann Martel
avg rating 3.35 — 431 ratings — published 1991
22 editions
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Self Self
by Yann Martel
avg rating 3.29 — 161 ratings — published 1996
8 editions
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Life of Pi - Multiple Critical... Life of Pi - Multiple Critical Perspective
by Yann Martel
avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 2007
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A General History of Quadruped... A General History of Quadrupeds: The Figures Engraved on Wood
by Thomas Bewick, Yann Martel (Foreword)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009
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"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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"If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams."
Yann Martel (Self)
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"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you."
Yann Martel (Life of Pi)
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