The Divine (graphic novel) Yann Martel, best known for the international bestseller "Life of Pi". It was released in July 2015 and has hit the New York Times Best Sellers list. It has since received highly positive reviews. "Publishers Weekly" had chosen "The Divine" for "top ten graphic novel for spring 2015", describing it later on as: "Heady, hellacious, and phantasmagoric". Jesse Karp on his Booklist review wrote: "Stunning artwork and creeping dread weave together in this satisfying and moving page-turner". Douglas Wolk from The New York Times described it as "a too rare example of artists getting top billing", referring to the artwork
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