Posted AT 4:37 PM EDT on 06/11/02
Literary storm swirls around Martel
Just over two weeks after winning Britain's top literary award, Canadian author Yann Martel is in the centre of a literary storm over plot similarities between his novel and a Brazilian book. Mr. Martel has said that he was inspired by Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar's book Max and the Cats, published in 1981. He acknowledges Dr. Scliar in the author's note of his award-wining novel Life of Pi, thanking him for "the spark of life.
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