Yann Martel, winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize for the now hugely popular Life of Pi (also asuccessful film directed by Ang Lee in 2012) is a Canadian novelist and author of books including Beatrice and Virgil, and The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios .

In this short and sweet interview with WatchMojo.com, Martel talks about what it means to be a writer, the power to create your own universe and how on travelling to India, he felt that the need to be ‘unreasonable’ was key to writing a story that reflected the verticality rather than horizontal nature of life and the Western perception that art is little more than luxury