Life of Pi author Yann Martel: ‘I thought the Iliad was a book for old farts… then I started getting ideas’

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Life of Pi author Yann Martel: ‘I thought the Iliad was a book for old farts… then I started getting ideas’

The best-selling novelist explains why his new retelling of Homer’s epic offers the ideal antidote to the age of TrumpYann Martel’s writing studio, where he sits while we talk over Zoom, is a mere 10ft by 12ft; beyond hi…

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