Yann Martel

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The Book Show · Yann Martel flips the script on a Greek classic · 7 Jun 2026 podcast

So now I'm curious in a different way.

Cause you know, I'm still the same person.

Writing has not changed at all for me.

The success of Life of Pi, the book of Pi didn't change me at all as a writer.

I don't know who would change as a writer.

I mean, yes, winning a big prize,

you know, validates what you've done, but it doesn't cure your weaknesses.

Whatever weakness you might have, both as a human being, but as a writer, aren't cured by winning a big prize.

So the next book that you write, in my case, it was Beatrice and Virgil about representations of the Holocaust, you know, whatever strengths I might've had remained,

But whatever weaknesses were still there.

And it was a wholly different book, so I couldn't just go back to Life of Pi.

Now it was a new territory.

So that hasn't changed at all.

I'm still intrigued by a question.

It just led to me by a question.

Well, that's delightful.

Remember I said earlier, art is a social contract.

That's what's delightful.

Because in fact, you create, listen, I wrote Life of Pi with, I had roommates, because I had no money.

In fact, the year before I finished Life of Pi, my income tax return, at the end of it, after all the sort of cheating, everything was a business expense.

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