Yann Martel
4 SeriesYann Martel, a Canadian author, is best known for his novel "Life of Pi," which won the Man Booker Prize and was adapted into a film. Born in Spain to Canadian parents, he spent his childhood in various countries including Alaska, British Columbia, and Mexico. Martel, who studied philosophy at Trent University, lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.
In "The High Mountains of Portugal" by Yann Martel, Tomas embarks on a journey in 1904 to find a historical artifact hinted at in an old journal, using one of Europe's earliest automobiles. Thirty-five years later, a pathologist becomes entangled in a mystery linked to Tomas's quest. Fifty years after that, a Canadian senator, grieving his wife's death, arrives in northern Portugal with a chimpanzee, leading to the culmination of a century-long search.
