Author Yann Martel with his Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi in 2002.
The bestselling Canadian writer behind Life of Pi chats with Q’s Tom Power as his novel’s theatrical adaptation hits the stage in Toronto.Yann Martel: Life of Pi and the case for being a bit less reasonable, the Canadian writer says he had grown up in a "fiercely secular family, scarred by Quebec Catholicism." He'd studied philosophy in university, which was "a guaranteed way of turning into, if not an agnostic, certainly an atheist.
It was a fateful trip to India that brought him "back to life" and inspired his Booker Prize-winning novel, which was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 2012 and, more recently, a Tony-winning play . He realized that both ask you to use the tools of the imagination, rather than those of reason. Much the same as art, "
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