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
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