Canadian Wins Booker for Shipwreck Story
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Canadian Yann Martel won the Booker Prize for “Life of Pi,” his quirky novel about a boy’s survival after a shipwreck.
“I feel like I am in the arms of a beautiful woman,” said the Montreal novelist, 39. “I am overwhelmed, delighted and honored.”
“It was a close-run thing with another book,” prize administrator Martyn Goff said. But he refused to say who was the runner-up.
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