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
Culture of the Caribbean Bhagavad Gita), Vedas, Puranas, Upanishads, Tirumurai, Naalayira Divya Prabhandham, Shastras, Sutras. The Sikhs also brought their Guru Granth Sahib with them. The Muslims also brought their Quran with them. Caribbean authors have won numerous awards. Mark McWatt won Best First Book Award in the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Caribbean region for his work of fiction "Suspended Sentences: Fictions of Atonement". Sir V. S. Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001 and the Man Booker Prize in 1971, and was awarded the Trinity Cross of Trinidad and Tobago. A selection of poetry and fiction produced in the