This Monday Yann Martel (author of the superb novel 'Life of Pi') sent his one hundredth and final book to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. On the 16th April 2007 Yann began sending personally selected books with an accompanying letter to his Prime Minister. Yann was inspired to start this 'little book club' after Mr Harper attended the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Council of Arts in 2007 and barely acknowledged the writers that attended. Yann has sent a book & letter every other Monday for the past four years, but after receiving only five three-line letters from Mr Harper's staff in response he feels that "100 is enough". Yann kept a report on all he sent to the Prime Minister to see it click
here.
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| Book number 100 |
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| Man Booker Prize winning Novel by Yann Martel |
