![]() ![]() ![]() My vision of the illustrated edition of Life of Pi is based on paintings from a first person’s perspective - Pi’s perspective. Torjanac used his distinctive blend of oil paints and digital illustration to produce 40 stunning illustrations with a conceptual twist - the scenes he portrayed were viewed from Pi’s subjective perspective. It’s a story of faith, adventure, survival and belonging.īut what makes the book most noteworthy is that, in 2005, a worldwide competition set out to find an artist to illustrate a new, special edition of the book, settling on the wonderful Croatian illustrator and painter Tomislav Torjanac. ![]() It tells the story of an Indian boy, Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, stranded for 227 days after a shipwreck on a boat he shares with a Bengali tiger named Pi. That’s exactly what happened to Yann Martel, whose fantasy adventure novel Life of Pi was rejected by at least five UK publishers before being published by a Canadian one in 2001 and awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the following year for its UK edition. ![]() It’s a familiar story - author faces series of rejection letters but perseveres to eventually reach wide critical acclaim. ![]()
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