# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yann-martel
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:29:46.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yann-martel"
name: "Yann Martel"
slug: "yann-martel"
description: "Yann Martel, is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie of the same name directed by Ang Lee, receiving four Academy Awards including the Academy Award for Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score."
tagline: "Canadian writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yann_martel_2007-10-25_Seattle_WA_USA.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1963-06-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump