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Saturday, 02 December 2006 |
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Canadian author Yann Martel earned worldwide recognition for his 2002 Man Booker Prize winning "Life of Pi," the story of an Indian boy trapped in a lifeboat on the vast Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger. Combining themes of faith with the human need for survival and for connection, readers were captured by the book's depth and compassion wrapped in a deceptively simple package. Says Martel, " My book is really very straightforward – it's just about man, God, and animals." Martel came to the FIL to promote "Life of Pi," which wasn't widely distributed in Latin America, and to participate in literary discussions ranging from the status of the Canadian publishing industry to a writer's political role. The son of diplomats, Martel was born in Spain and has lived all around the world. He has said that he, "feels comfortable pretty much anywhere on this big, beautiful planet." Though his first language is French, his English is perfect and he speaks Spanish with enviable grammatical accuracy, only stumbling over some vocabulary. He sat down with the Guadalajara Reporter's Megan Smith to reflect on how living abroad has informed his writing and his coming works. |
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Mexican Lifestyles 
Flying or climbing around Colima’s Volcan de Fuego
