Tiger benign. In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, tigers are fiercer and more ruthless than lions. The tiger's tail appears in stories from countries including China and Korea, it being generally inadvisable to grasp a tiger by the tail. In William Blake's poem in the "Songs of Experience", titled "The Tyger," the tiger is a menacing and fearful animal. In Yann Martel's 2001 Man Booker Prize winning novel "Life of Pi", the protagonist, surviving shipwreck for months in a small boat, somehow avoids being eaten by the other survivor, a large Bengal tiger. The story was adapted in Ang Lee's 2012 feature
Yann Martel Martel is also the author of the novels "The High Mountains of Portugal", "Beatrice and Virgil" and "Self", the collection of stories "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios", and a collection of letters to the prime minister of Canada, "101 Letters to a Prime Minister". He has won a number of literary prizes, including the 2001 Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the 2002 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children. Although his first language is French, Yann Martel writes in English: "English is the language in which