We Ate the GROUP 2

Children Andrade, Jovan

Gonzales, Jacob
Last by Yann Abejar, Maron
Martel Mingoa, Mark

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Author’s Brief Background Born: June 25, 1963 (age 58
Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain, in 1963, of years), Salamanca, Spain
Canadian parents who were doing graduate studies.
Later they both joined the Canadian foreign service and he
grew up in Costa Rica, France, Spain and Mexico, in addition
to Canada. He continued to travel widely as an adult,
spending time in Iran, Turkey and India, but is now based
mainly in Montreal. He obtained a degree in Philosophy
from Trent University in Ontario, then worked variously as a
tree planter, dishwasher and security guard before taking up Publishers: Canongate
writing full-time from the age of 27.
Books Ltd
His first book, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios,
was published in 1993 and is a collection of short stories,
dealing with such themes as illness, storytelling and the
history of the twentieth century; music, war and the anguish
of youth; how we die; and grief, loss and the reasons we are
attached to material objects. This was followed by his first
novel, Self (1996), a tale of sexual identity, orientation and
Orlando-like transformation. It is described by Charles Foran Author statement:
I write to understand issues that are important to
in the Montreal Gazette as a ' ... superb psychological acute me, to express my creative energies and to pass
observation on love, attraction and belonging ...' the time in a meaningful way.

Yann Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 

 Bibliography Awards
2016 The High Mountains of Portugal 2014 Coventry Inspiration Book Award

2012 101 Letters to a Prime Minister 2004 Deutscher Buecherpreis

2003 La Presse Prix du Grand Public
2010 Beatrice and Virgil 2003 Boeke Prize (South Africa)
2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for
2004 We Ate The Children Last Literature
2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize
2002 Life of Pi (Eurasia Region, Best Book)
2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
1996 Self 2001 Governor General's Literary
Award for Fiction (Canada)
1993 The Facts Behind the Helsinki 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction
Roccamatios and Other Stories (Canada)
1996 Chapters/Books in Canada
First Novel Award (Canada)
1993 Journey Prize (Canada)
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