Yann Martel
![Martel in 2007](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Yann_martel_2007-10-25_Seattle_WA_USA.jpg)
Martel is also the author of the novels ''The High Mountains of Portugal'', ''Beatrice and Virgil'', and ''Self'', the collection of stories ''The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios'', and a collection of letters to Canada's Prime Minister ''101 Letters to a Prime Minister''. He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature.
Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with writer Alice Kuipers and their four children. His first language is French, but he writes in English. Provided by Wikipedia
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