#About the event
7:30pm, Wednesday 13th May 2026
Underground Theatre, Brisbane Powerhouse
119 Lamington St, New Farm
Mark your literary calendars: Yann Martel, beloved and critically acclaimed author of the Booker-winning novel Life of Pi, is back with his first book in a decade. In Son of Nobody, a classics scholar discovers a lost account of the Trojan War that unlocks both a new historical perspective and a profound personal meditation on love, ambition and grief. Son of Nobody is vintage Martel, elegantly weaving its dual narrative with astute philosophical reflections on the echoes between fact and fable, myth and memory.
#Artist
Yann Martel
Yann Martel is the author of a short story collection, The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios, and of five novels, Life of Pi (for which he was awarded the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Self, Beatrice & Virgil, The High Mountains of Portugal and Son of Nobody. Life of Pi was adapted for the silver screen by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars. Martel also ran a guerilla book club with Stephen Harper, sending the former prime minister of Canada a book every two weeks for four years. The letters that accompanied the books were published as 101 Letters to a Prime Minister. Martel lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with the writer Alice Kuipers and their four children.
