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Yann Martel

1963 - Today

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Yann Martel, (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars including Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yann Martel has received more than 1,342,473 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Yann Martel is the 4,453rd most popular writer (down from 4,169th in 2019), the 1,323rd most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,225th in 2019) and the 166th most popular Spanish Writer.

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  • 1.3M

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  • 47.20

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  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.05

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Yann Martel ranks 4,453 out of 5,755Before him are Irving Wallace, Keri Hulme, Christopher Priest, Hilde Domin, Marilyn French, and René Depestre. After him are Zaharia Stancu, Willem Elsschot, Émile Souvestre, James Dashner, Alfredo Zitarrosa, and Eliška Krásnohorská.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1963, Yann Martel ranks 228Before him are Brendan Coyle, Dylan Walsh, Edie Falco, Mark Hughes, Alessandro Safina, and Neerja Bhanot. After him are Dario Marianelli, Lajos Détári, Jon Turteltaub, Florence Parly, Michael McElhatton, and Anders Frisk.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Yann Martel ranks 1,323 out of 2,932Before him are Josep Maria Mauri (1941), Ramón Encinas (1893), Antonia San Juan (1961), Iago Aspas (1987), Mariano García Remón (1950), and Vicente Enrique y Tarancón (1907). After him are Carlos Amigo Vallejo (1934), José Manuel García-Margallo (1944), Carmen de Burgos (1867), Iván de la Peña (1976), Miguel Ángel Moratinos (1951), and José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán (1944).

Among WRITERS In Spain

Among writers born in Spain, Yann Martel ranks 166Before him are Rosa Montero (1951), Rosa Sensat (1873), Carolina Coronado (1820), María Teresa León (1903), Rosa Chacel (1898), and Eduardo Pondal (1835). After him are Carmen de Burgos (1867), Ramón J. Sender (1901), Ángel Ganivet (1865), Enric Valor i Vives (1911), Javier Cercas (1962), and Juan de la Cueva (1543).

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