2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

LIFE OF PI
Yann Martel
Harcourt Brace
ISBN: 0151008116
336 pages

Canadian Yann Martel is the 2002 recipient of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. His imaginative novel LIFE OF PI (Harcourt) recounts the adventures of an Indian zookeeper's son trapped at sea on a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, an orangutan and a wounded zebra. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. Martel will take home a check for 50,000 pounds ($76,000).

One of the world's most distinctive literary awards since 1968, the Man Booker Prize represents the very best of contemporary fiction in English. The Man Booker judges are selected from the country's finest critics, writers and academics to maintain the consistent excellence of the prize. Martel, whose first novel SELF went unnoticed, should find a worldwide audience after receiving this award.

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