Max and the Cats number of zoo animals caged in the hold—but after being rescued and making a life for himself in Brazil continues to find his German past impossible to escape. The novel came to widespread public attention in 2002 when Canadian writer Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize for "Life of Pi". Martel's novel is about a boy, Pi, who finds himself trapped on a boat with a tiger after the ship he and his family are sailing on sinks. The family were zookeepers, and the animals they were transporting in the hold sink with the rest of the ship, except
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