Yann Martel - Sydney Writers Festival livestream at Launceston Library

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The story of the Trojan War, like so many wars real and imagined, is a story most often told by the victors, the princes and the powerful.
In this new imagining of the ancient legend, Son of Nobody, Yann Martel tells the familiar tale from an unheard perspective: that of a commoner and goatherd who becomes a soldier, Psoas, the son of nobody. Acclaimed for his Booker Prize–winning Life of Pi, adapted into an Oscar-winning film, Yann’s first novel in a decade sings a universal song about the power of story.
Unravel ancient traditions with Yann, in conversation with ABC Radio National’s Claire Nichols fromThe Book Show.

Presented in partnership with ABC Radio National.

Yann Martel is a Canadian writer, the author of a collection of short stories, a compilation of letters to a former Prime Minister of Canada and four novels, most notably Life of Pi, for which he won the 2002 Booker Prize. His latest novel, Son of Nobody, inspired by Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War, has just come out. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

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