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
2012 Man Booker Prize to "The Times", where he became editor in 1992. In 2002 he went from "The Times" to a post as editor of the "TLS". Stothard is an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, and President of the Classical Association. He has written two non-fiction books based on his own experiences: "Thirty Days: A Month at the Heart of Blair's War" (2003), and "On the Spartacus Road, a Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy" (2010). In preparation for the task as chair of the Booker jury, Stothard read 145 books in seven months, and made sure the other jury members had done