![]() ![]() ![]() Critical reception was largely positive, focusing on Martel’s ability to make a fantastical story at least plausible. It was awarded Canada’s 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, in 2002, England’s prestigious Man Booker Prize, and in 2003, South Africa’s Boeke Prize. Life of Pi was published in 2001, Yann Martel’s third published work of fiction, and the one upon which most of his reputation is built. For the next two years, in India and Canada, he researched the essentials-zoology, religion, survival at sea-and wrote what became an internationally best-selling novel. Years later, while in India, without a story he believed in or much hope, he suddenly remembered this premise, and the rest of Life of Pi came to him. Martel describes loving that premise, and being disappointed that he had not had the opportunity to do it better than the author. They decide to leave Germany, but the boat they take sinks, and only one member of the family survives, ending up on a lifeboat with a black panther. Yann Martel was perusing through John Updike’s rather negative review of Max and the Cats, a story about a Jewish family who run a zoo in Germany during the years leading up to the Holocaust. Life of Pi began with some casual reading. ![]()
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