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",
Richard: A Novel Richard: A Novel Richard: A Novel is a book by English author and journalist Ben Myers about musician Richey Edwards. Edwards, who suffered from depression, alcoholism, anorexia and self-harm – disappeared on 1 February 1995 at the age of 27 and was declared officially presumed dead on 23 November 2008. "Richard" was published by Picador and was released on 1 October 2010. On his blog on 28 May 2010, Myers noted that Picador ran a Twitter-based competition to win an advance bound proof copy of "Richard", and that an advance bound proof copy of the novel had been put up