Yann Martel is the celebrated Canadian author of Life of Pi, a Booker Prize-winning international bestseller made into an Academy Award winning film and successful Broadway play.

Known for exploring themes of interpretation, identity, and storytelling, Martel comes to Houston to share his new novel, Son of Nobody, which reimagines classical antiquity from an outsider’s perspective via a new legend composed by Martel: the Psoad, an epic in free verse that follows a goatherd’s son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight at Troy.

Martel will read from Son of Nobody, followed by an on-stage conversation led by a local writer/journalist. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing.