In a short essay titled “ How I Wrote Life of Pi,” Martel has accounted for the influence that Scliar’s novel - or rather, what he recalls as John Updike’s negative review of the novel in The New York Times Book Review - had on him. You may remember that a controversy followed: according to some, Martel’s book, about a boy in a lifeboat with a tiger, was suspiciously similar to that of Brazilian author Moacyr Scliar’s 1981 novella Max and the Cats, about a man in a lifeboat with a jaguar. PERHAPS THE BIGGEST SURPRISE at the 2013 Oscar ceremony was that Ang Lee beat out Steven Spielberg for Best Director with his adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. Martel’s novel was itself a surprising Man Booker Prize award winner in 2002. This article originally appeared on the L.A.
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