What’s Next from Yann Martel, and What’s Next for Stephen Harper?

February 27th, 2010 admin

On April 13, over seven years after he came out of nowhere to win the Booker Prize for what has remained one of the most popular novels of the last decade, Life of Pi , Yann Martel will release his next novel, Beatrice and Virgil . In the meantime, he's put his plans for the new novel through many versions (which you can get a hint of from what seems a very autobiographical opening to the new book, which tells the story of how a bestselling author named Harry had to abandon his great plans for a flip-book version of his new book, one half a novel and the other a nonfiction essay, a plan that Martel himself described to me, and no doubt to many others, for Beatrice and Virgil a couple …

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