The Life of a Traveling Writer

For Yann Martel, author of the Booker Prize-winning “Life of Pi,” travel serves as an important part of the writing process. “In my early twenties I traveled for the sake of it,” he told Carl Wilkinson of the Guardian in a recent interview. “It really didn’t matter where I went…In my early thirties that kind of travel felt too much like drifting and so I started traveling with a purpose, such as research.” He researched “Pi” in India, started writing in France, then finished in Montreal. “For my next novel,” he says, “I’m thinking about settling in the Azores to write – they’re supposed to be beautiful islands, and not too touristy.”

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