Life of Pi sort of with a capital 'S' – something that would direct my life." He spoke of being lonely and needing direction in his life, and found that writing the novel met this need. The name of Martel's tiger, Richard Parker, was inspired by a character in Edgar Allan Poe's nautical adventure novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" (1838). In this book, Richard Parker is a mutineer who is stranded and eventually cannibalized on the hull of an overturned ship (and there is a dog aboard who is named Tiger). The author also had in mind another occurrence
Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger and xenophobia form part of everyday life. The novel has been published in Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland, the Netherlands, France, Hungary, Italy and will be published in the fall of 2010 by Knopf in the US. Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger () is the second novel by Swedish writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri. It was published in 2006 and has received several important literary prizes. It was awarded 2006 year's P O Enquist Prize. Later the same year "Montecore" was nominated for the August literary award. "Montecore" also received Sveriges Radio's Romanpris award for