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Ang Lee to adapt Life of Pi

According to The Bookseller, Yann Martel's crazy popular Man Booker-winning Life of Pi is finally going before the cameras, courtesy of Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee. Filmmakers such as M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), ... Read More »

October 29, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

Yann Martel finally hears from the PMO

By Suzanne Gardner

For over two years, Life of Pi author Yann Martel has been sending books that have "been known to expand stillness" to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Beginning with Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich ... Read More »

June 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Trends in YA reading, part one

By Scott MacDonald

The CBC Arts website features a multifaceted look at marketing adult fiction to teen audiences. Although, through high school English classes and extracurricular reading, young adults have long been reading adult books, the inadvertent youth ... Read More »

March 15, 2006 | Filed under: Bookselling, Industry news

Martel's next move

By Leigh Anne Williams

Two years after conquering the Man Booker Prize and the Canadian retail market, Life of Pi author Yann Martel is set to unveil a follow-up. Not fiction, mind you -- Martel has now tried his ... Read More »

November 1, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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