eric | Shared With: Everyone - May 02 2007 | books, literature, Yann Martel, Canada, news, thepugetnews
Noted Booker Prize-winning author Yann Martel has vowed to send a book every other week to Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. This week's selection? "Animal Farm."
Quoted: Yesterday, the Booker Prize-winning author, who may fast be becoming Stephen Harper's most annoying pest, dropped off the second volume in his supply-the-PM-with-good reading campaign - which more honestly should be described as a guerrilla campaign to affirm the importance of the arts and literature in the national discourse.
eric | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 07 2007 | books, blogs, thepugetnews, bookninja, Yann Martel
A Canadian writer, the author of "Life of Pi," was asked not to read from Mein Kampf on CBC Radio during "Freedom to Read" week.
Quoted: “It’s a horrible book, but a horribly important book, because you get in the brain of one of the monsters of the 20th century,” Martel said.
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