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'''''Life of Pi''''' is a novel written by Yann Martel and first published in Canada by Alfred A. Knopf in 2001. Reminiscent of the theme of Robinson Crusoe and The Parable of the Three Rings, ''Life of Pi'' is an epic survival story of ship-wrecked Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel. The publication resulted in a plagiarism debate in 2002, when Martel was accused of having taken major plot elements from Moacyr Scliar's ''Max e os Felinos'' (1981) but was settled after a conversation between the authors. 

==Awards==
*2001-Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (Canada)   (shortlist) 
*2001-Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction (Canada)   
*2002-[[Commonwealth Writers' Prize]] (Eurasia Region, Best Book)   (shortlist)  
*2002-Man [[Booker Prize]] for Fiction   
*2003-Boeke Prize (South Africa)  

==Adaptations==
*pre-production 2009 USA movie, by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (screen play)

==Further Reading==
*Georgis, Dina. "Hearing the Better Story: Learning and the Aesthetics of Loss and Expulsion." ''Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies'' 28.2 (2006 Apr-June):165-78.
*Lu, Li-an. "Life of Pi: Rewrite of Robinson Crusoe in the Inter-Faith Third Millenium." ''Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences'' 3.2 (2006):76-92.
*Díaz Dueñas, Mercedes. "The Postmodern Twist in Yann Martel's Life of Pi." ''Figures of Belatedness: Postmodernist Fiction in English.'' Ed. and introd. Gascueña Gahete, Javier; Martín Salván; Paula. Córdoba, Spain: Universidad de Córdoba, 2006. 247-57.
*Dwyer, June. "Yann Martel's Life of Pi and the Evolution of the Shipwreck Narrative." ''Modern Language Studies'' 35.2 (2005 Fall):9-21.
*Stratton, Florence. "'Hollow at the Core': Deconstructing Yann Martel's Life of Pi." ''Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en Littérature Canadienne'' 29.2 (2004):5-21.
*Cole, Stewart. "Believing in Tigers: Anthropomorphism and Incredulity in Yann Martel's Life of Pi." ''Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en Littérature Canadienne'' 29.2 (2004):22-36.
*Wolf, Werner. "Migration towards a Rewarding Goal and Multiculturalism with a Positive Centre: Yann Martel's Life of Pi as a Post-Postmodernist Attempt at Eliciting (Poetic) Faith." ''Canada in the Sign of Migration and Trans-Culturalism: From Multi- to Trans-Culturalism/Le Canada sous le signe de la migration at du transculturalisme: Du multiculturalisme au transculturalisme''. Canadiana: Literature-Kulturen/Literatures-Cultures/Littératures-Cultures. 1. Ed. Ertler, Klause-Dieter and Löschnigg, Martin. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang, 2004. 107-24.

==Links==
*[http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookclub/story/0,,2184736,00.html Guardian book club, "Into the void", Yann Martel on the origins of his novel, October 6, 2007]
*[http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2179274,00.html  Guardian book club, "Narrative ark", John Mullan, September 29, 2007]
*[http://books.guardian.co.uk/bookclub/story/0,,2174241,00.html Guardian book club, "Paper tigers", John Mullan, September 22, 2007] 
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/gallery/2007/sep/27/generalfiction?picture=330832892 Images from Croatian artist Tomislav Torjanac's illustrated edition of the Life of Pi]
*[http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1102/perform05.htm Raoul Eshelman, "After Postmodernism: Performatism in Literature" (2005)]
*[http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2152363,00.html Guardian, "In praise of ... Yann Martel's book club", August 20, 2007] 

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