“Yan Martell is famous for writing Life of Pie, which wasn't just a standout”
Books mentioned in Booker Prize Winner Gives His Best Writing Advice (Yann Martel Interview)
From How I Write · 2026-05-06
All matched books in this episode
“around. Um, for Son of Nobody, sometimes the envelopes were on top of each other”
“Great Gatsby with the book The Great Gatsby. It's like Fitzgerald and I even”
“if we both read The Lord of the Rings and”
“where an entire generation loved The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. It was”
“Josephine and the mouse people. It's about mice. Uh he constantly uses”
“called Beatus and Virgil and there I used a donkey and a monkey and here they”
“animals uh including in this one son of nobody my latest novel there I use a”
“Animal Farm? >> Well, cuz there once again it goes to to”
“call me Ishmael today mother died or you know”
“for the longest time I went to bed early produced. You know some opening”
“>> Well, that's like the like the Iliad starts in the middle of the argument in”
“Murder on the Orient Express, there's a scene where a porter knocks on the door”
“example the sailor who fell from grace with the sea by Yukio Mishima story of a”
“fantastical school called Hogwart with a wizard called Harry Potter. You create”
“movie Eats, Shoots, and Leaves? Who would have thought that a book about”
“called 10 Days That Shook the World about the October Revolution. It was”
“remember reading Dant's Divine Comedy and endlessly enjoying the footnotes”