Yann Martel list within the first month of its release. Martel has said in a number of interviews that Dante's "Divine Comedy" is the single most impressive book he has ever read. In talking about his most memorable childhood book, he recalls "Le Petit Chose" by Alphonse Daudet. He said that he read it when he was ten years old, and it was the first time he found a book so heartbreaking that it moved him to tears. Yann Martel Yann Martel (born 25 June 1963) is a Spanish-born Canadian author best known for the Man Booker Prize-winning novel "Life of Pi",
Arlene Martel Ringer" (1966), in which, aside from his role as Mason, Raymond Burr played the actual murderer, Grimes. Martel appeared in the "" episode "Amok Time" (1967) as T'Pring, Mr. Spock's wife, and in "The Outer Limits" episode "Demon with a Glass Hand" (1964). Martel played the princess Sarafina on "Have Gun – Will Travel", the evil witch Malvina on "Bewitched", the French Underground contact Tiger in five episodes of "Hogan's Heroes" (1965-71), a female cosmonaut on "I Dream of Jeannie", a Hungarian immigrant on "The Fugitive" episode "The Blessings of Liberty" (1966) and the nurse who repeatedly utters the sinister