Yann Martel

Yann Martel is a Canadian author who is famously known for his novel “Life of Pi,” the story of an
Indian teenager adrift at sea, on a lifeboat shared with a 450 pound (204 kg) Royal Bengal tiger. He
was born in Salamanca, Spain, on June 25th 1963 to Canadian parents: a diplomat as a father and an
accomplished poet as a mother.

Due to his parents’ occupations, Yann Martel travelled and lived all across the globe; from countries
such as Spain, Costa Rica and Mexico to France, and the United States. Even after becoming an adult,
he was quite fond of the travelling during his childhood and continued to travel widely, spending
time in Iran, Turkey and India.

He completed his secondary education in Canada at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario from
1979 to 1981. He then continued his studies at Trent University (1981-84; 1986-87) and Concordia
University from 1984 up to ’85, allowing him to earn a B.A in philosophy.

Yann is an ambitious hard worker and worked variously as a tree planter, dishwasher and security
guard before ever considering to take up writing as a full-time job at the age of 27. He started writing
during his college years, and found that he was quite fond of it; he would write short stories and
plays that allow him to give a soul to the character; a life that they lack through ink on paper.

Life of Pi is an adventurous diary that depicts the life of Mr. Pi Patel; a time in which he experienced,
what was thought to be fictitious, a life changing journey that evidently made people believe in that
the impossible is possible. Yann Martel is but a narrator of the story, giving life and spreading the
words of Pi Patel and his courageousness against a ferocious Royal Bengal tiger adrift at sea on a
lifeboat.