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
Lost Man Booker Prize award of the prize was announced by Antonia Fraser and accepted by Farrell's brother Richard. If "Troubles" had won the Man Booker Prize in 1970 Farrell would have been the first author to win it twice, as he won it in 1973 for "The Siege of Krishnapur". Farrell's literary agent claimed Farrell would have been "thrilled" to have won the prize. Lost Man Booker Prize The Lost Man Booker Prize was a special edition of the Man Booker Prize awarded by a public vote in 2010 to a novel from 1970 as the books published in 1970 were not eligible