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",
Saint-Denis-lès-Martel Saint-Denis-lès-Martel Saint-Denis-lès-Martel is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. The commune of Saint-Denis-lès-Martel is located in Quercy, in the "Causse de Martel". It is watered by two tributaries of the Dordogne, the Sourdoire which borders the communal territory to the southeast, and the Tourmente. Saint-Denis-lès-Martel is adjacent to five other communes. The toponym Saint-Denis-lès-Martel, in Occitan "Sent Daunís", is based on the Christian Hagiotoponyme, Denis de Paris (Dionysius): first Bishop of Paris. "Lès "comes from "Lez", a preposition from the late Latin "latus" meaning next to. Sent Daunís was called first Lenzac variant of Lanzac. During the