Yann Martel: Son of Nobody

Yann Martel is the author of a short story collection, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and of five novels, Self, Beatrice & Virgil, Life of Pi (for which he was awarded the 2002 Man Booker Prize), The High Mountains of Portugal and Son of Nobody.

Martel also ran a guerilla book club with Stephen Harper, sending the former prime minister of Canada a book every two weeks for four years. The letters that accompanied the books were published as 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.

Sarah L'Estrange is a producer and broadcaster at ABC Radio National and has been steeped in books and writing for 20 years. As producer of The Book Show she has interviewed many Australian and international authors including Helen Garner, Christos Tsiolkas, Min Jin Lee and Salman Rushdie. She has also produced and presented special series for Radio National including Fakes and Frauds about Australian literary scandals and Banned Books which looks at the forces driving book bans worldwide. She also produced The Books that Changed Us short series which takes a fresh look at five influential books of the 20th century.