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Life of Pi author Yann Martel: ‘I thought the...
The best-selling novelist explains why his new retelling of Homer’s epic offers the ideal antidote to the age of TrumpYann Martel’s writing studio, where he sits while we talk over Zoom, is a mere 10ft by 12ft; beyond his treadmill desk lie the drifts of snow that separate him from the house he shares with his wife, writer Alice Kuipers, and their four children. Martel was born in Spain, but his father’s academic work took the family to places including Portugal, France, Costa Rica and Alaska; p
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