Yann Martel was born in Spain in 1963, and is the award-winning author of four previous books, the most recent of which is *What Is Stephen Harper Reading?* He studied philosophy at Trent University, ...

When Yann Martel's Life of Pi won the Man Booker Prize According to Martel, both art and religion require faith. Life of Pi is an examination of "the mechanism of faith," he explains. "How do you ...

(CNN)-- The Booker Prize-winning author of "Life of Pi," Yann Martel is one of Canada's most recognized and outspoken writers. Born in Spain to Canadian diplomats, Martel lived a nomadic life as a ...

Booker Prize winner Yann Martel today described his win as "like winning the lottery". The Canadian author beat five other writers to the prestigious £50,000 Man Booker award which was announced ...

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence is throwing major shade on Elon Musk's years of broken promises about self-driving Teslas. Yann LeCun, the so-called "Godfather of AI" who currently ...

Ultimately, reason is kind of silent. It just reflects my own nothingness to myself. - Yann Martel Now, his feeling about life is that you ought to "throw yourself at it," which means believing in ...