Life of Pi: The Buzz on Pi

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• Life of Pi The Buzz on Pi
• The Literary Agent
• The Prizes
• The Reviews
• Global Markets
• Life of Pi Illustration Competition

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Life of Pi Illustration Competition
What was this competition devised? --The
novel invites illustration -- To increase market
demand and book sales --To continue marketing
it as cross-over fiction --To ornamnent the book
and revitalize the fiction marketplace.

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Life of Pi Illustration Competition
How does the novel invite illustration?1. I
wish I could convey the perfection of a seal
slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging
from point to point or a lion merely turning its
head. But language founders in such seas.
Better to picture it in your head if you want to
feel it. (Chap. 4 pg. 16). 2. As a child I
devoured the comic books of the Ramayana and the
Mahabharata and an illustrated childrens Bible
and other stories of the Gods (Chap. 23
pg.72-73).3. Strange as it might sound, it
was only after a long time that I looked to see
what was happening in the lifeboat. The hyena
had attacked the zebra. Its mouth was bright red
and it was chewing on a piece of hide. My eyes
automatically searched for the wound, for the
area under attack. I gasped with horror. . .
.I turned my eyes to the horizon again.
(Chap. 45 pg. 133).

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Shortlisted artists (slides 4-18)
Jonathan Gross, selected by The Times
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Tomer Hanuka, selected by The Times
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Tomislav Torjanac, selected by The Times
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Andrea Offermann, selected by The Times
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Luis Lorenzana, selected by The Times
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Victor Tkachenko, selected by The Globe and Mail,
Canada
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Pascal Hierholz, selected by The Globe and Mail,
Canada
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Tim Anderson, selected by The Globe and Mail,
Canada
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Michael Clarke, selected by The Globe and Mail,
Canada
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Kate Puxley, selected by The Globe and Mail,
Canada
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Sophia Hanover, selected by The Age, Australia
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Michelle Giacobello, selected by The Age,
Australia
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Leith Walton, selected by The Age, Australia
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Karen Schneider, selected by The Age, Australia
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Judith Rossell, selected by The Age, Australia
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Winner of the Canongates Life of Pi illustration
contest Tomislav Torjanac
My vision of the illustrated edition of Life of
Pi is based on paintings from a first person's
perspective -- Pi's perspective. The
interpretation of what Pi sees is intermeshed
with what he feels and it is shown through use of
colours, perspective, symbols, hand gestures,
etc. The idea behind this approach is a kind of
an extension of Mr. Martel's idea as expressed in
this quote "It seemed natural that Mr. Patel's
story should be told mostly in the first person
-- in his voice and through his eyes. But any
inaccuracies or mistakes are mine." ' (Tomislav
Torjanac, Canongate Publishers website)
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• My illustration is called There Goes Our
  Lunch. It shows the Japanese investigators who
  interview Pi in a Mexican hospital after his
  rescue. This scene gave me the chance to include
  symbolic objects the tape recorder, the IV drip
  and to create the atmosphere of a small room,
  where the viewer is in the position of Pi
  himself.
• I first read Life of Pi a while ago. It was very
  important to me I discussed it with my
  girlfriend for a long time. It made me think
  about how we interpret our own reality (Tomislav
  Torjanac, Times Feb. 18 2006).

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Tomislav Torjanac Lord, avert their eyes from
me, I whispered in my soul
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Tomislav Torjanac I threw the mako towards the
stern