![]() ![]() ![]() “I want to spend more time with them and also I want to start work on my next novel.” “As much as I am fond of my democratic exercise with the Prime Minister, I am even more fond of my children,” Martel told the Star Tuesday. Martel, too, is a busy man and wants to devote his time to other things. “Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion.” “I’m tired of using books as political bullets and grenades,” Martel wrote in his final letter to Harper on Monday. One hundred books and zero personal replies later, Martel decided to stop. And so this is what I propose to do: not to educate - that would be arrogant, less than that - to make suggestions to his stillness.” “Who is this man? What makes him tick? No doubt he is busy… And no doubt he sounds and governs like one who cares little for the arts,” Martel wrote in the Globe and Mail in April 2007 as he embarked upon his side project. ![]() Twice a month for nearly four years, Martel has carefully selected a book - a short one, not too dense or experimental and all but one in English - and sent it along with a detailed letter about his choice to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The award-winning author has no plans to retire but he has had enough of mailing a book to the Prime Minister every other week. OTTAWA-Canadian novelist Yann Martel is calling it quits. ![]()
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