Life of Pi Life of Pi Life of Pi is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. The novel has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. It was rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001. The UK edition won
Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author) Writers' Prize for Overall Best Book Award for his novel "Mister Pip". The novel is set during the Bougainville Civil War of the early 1990s in Papua New Guinea. The book was also short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2007. Jones was the 2007 recipient of the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers' Residency. Lloyd Jones (New Zealand author) Lloyd Jones (born 23 March 1955) is a New Zealand author. His novel "Mister Pip" won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker. Jones was born in Lower Hutt in 1955, and attended Hutt Valley High School and